... This is Offtopic and Flamebait but hopefully it is interesting and informative as well. The 4 should balance to where it is just "okay"
I have been doing work on IBM AS400s of recent, mainly installing ethernet cards into 9402-400s, 9401-150s. Well, I had two machines completely die on me.
I followed the instructions from the repair / maintanance manual on installing and removing hardware to a T. Didnt swap hardware while the machine was hot, I was grounded, etc etc etc.
The two machines have warrentys on all the hardware but no where on the machine does it say working with it, removing the case, etc. voids your warrenty. There are no break me, void warrenty stickers. I was using IBM instructions on 100% IBM hardware doing a standard install -- nothing crazy.
There is no direct evidence linking the two sepereate ethernet cards and cages to the death of two seperate machines. Granted, its a coincidence that should be considered but there is no 100% proof. The fact that two seperate cards were used and the unlikelyness that a bad card would completely kill a system (namely the CPU card) is far fetched. More often do you see AS400s that die when powered down and moved. Its not insane to think that these very old machines were just waiting to have something fuck up on them.
However, the two incompotent IBM techs that came out to the second machine are crying fowl saying the machine itself is not under warrenty. This flys in the face of what Ive been told from the company I do this for and what I have read! Granted, these techs "rarely work on AS400s" and didnt know a single fucking thing other then to look in the manual. Had the office not had the repair manual, they woulda been fucked. They also had to have a tech on the phone the whole god damn time. They did not bring a 7mm socket to get into the system so they had to use my power driver and sockets. They removed and handled the CPU card w/o grounding themselves (one guy pulled it and just handed it to the other guy who was on the phone to read a SN). They left the machine on, w/ error code, overnight with everything just scattered this way and that.
So - now we are just waiting to see what kind of outrageous bill they send to my offices. Re-damn-diculous.
But, thats why I no likey the IBM. Im sure there are going to be replies that say of course I voided the warrenty, tell me that I am a moron and broke it, but I will be 100% honest -- I really don't thing it had anything to do with what I did.
Since I can not link directly to this article I will quote Kyle from HardOCP.com - and as of 8:18 CST March 28th, this can still be found on the Front Page of www.hardocp.com.
I just off the phone with the fine folks over at AMD and was discussing the issues over the Aberdeen Group white paper. Aberdeen, if you are unfamiliar with them, claims to be a Market Analysis company. If this is all new to you, please visit the InqWell as well as ZDNet on this issue.
There are two situations in this issue that are fun to look at. If you go read the white paper entitled AMD's Gigahertz Equivalency: Inexperienced Buyers Accept Bad Science, published here (and you will have to sign up) you will notice that Aberdeen uses flawed logic to pick on AMD's model numbering system of their CPUs.
Nevertheless, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) last year deliberately took a step down a slippery slope of bad science when it named its Athlon XP line of microprocessor models with clock-speed gigahertz ratings equivalent to Intel's competing Pentium 4 (P4), based on a set of application benchmarks audited by Arthur Andersen and fully described in AMD vs. Intel comparisons at AMD's Web site.
And then..
What's the flaw in AMD's equivalency ratings? There are many discussed in this Aberdeen Executive White Paper. The key flaw is that the equivalency rating is a snapshot in a moment in time -- and time surely marches on in the computer industry -- making the gigahertz equivalency subject to increasing variance over time. For example, the AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processor announced last fall runs at 1.667 GHz. The 2000+ equivalency rating is aimed at Intel's P4 2.0 GHz Willamette processor.
Aberdeen seems clueless that the basis for AMD's model numbering system is a comparison to their own TBird core CPUs and the speed they would have to run to be equivalent to a Palomino core CPU in performance. Seems as though Aberdeen did not even contact AMD in order to better understand the exact subject they were commenting on.
The other part of this situation is this. It is now being rumored that Intel paid for the white paper.
But the INQUIRER learned from Intel this morning that it paid for the report to be written, which certainly puts a different complexion on the thrust of the piece. Intel maintains, however, that fact doesn't affect the objectivity of the Aberdeen Group's findings. Cough.
While I have no idea of the validity of this claim, I will tell you this. I think of all of these "market analysis" companies as no more than paid mouthpieces of the hardware industry. Some are scumbags that make a living off taking a product and making it look good to distributors and consumers. They are spinmeisters looking for a buck and will spin their "truths" to support their clients needs. If you think market analysis companies are in this hardware industry to make sure that you, the consumer, get the truth, you are sadly mistaken. Is this to say all anylysts bad and are always wrong? Of course not, but I give them about as much credibility as a 4th grader with a Geocities site. At least the 4th grader most likely has purer motives.
I think it was one of these industry analysts that referred to sites such as our own as "homebrewed" and that we bascially did not deserve the voice that we have in the hardware community. I guess even we piss off the analysts when we uncover the truth that does not agree with their spin.
Anyway, this is all my opinion and subject to just flat being wrong but there is one thing I will tell you for sure and that is that the hardware industry has a nasty underbelly just about like every other industry in this world.
UPDATE: From the cards and letters we have gotten on this subject everyone seems to be missing the point of my little diatribe posted above. The rating methodology wars are over in my mind, and have been for a long time now as Aberdeen is way late to this party. The opinion I want you know about analyst companies is that they are simply all bought and paid for and expected to spin the agenda of their client.
Also, Intel did share with us tonight that they did finance the Aberdeen research into the AMD rating system.
As long as you guys are smart enough to form your own opinions and thoughts, which most of your are, just make sure you don't let these "analyst" companies shape your opinions as some are nothing more than a PR company that runs a couple of benchmarks. In this case Aberdeen based their entire opinion on BABPCo Sysmark 2001 and Quake III numbers.
You guys would hunt me down and whip my ass if I ever gave you a review based on that little data.
Im leaving that to you guys. I wanted to make sure that this point was brought up (Im 99% sure but I didnt wanna chance it) so I wanted to start the thread.
Yes, Im a thread starter, a dirty dirty thread starter
You mean - Ice Melts cause the sun is hot? Im gonna have to jump on the side of the facts that say "global warming is bullshit" just like those before me in the 70s said global cooling was bullshit. Id like to dedicate this thread to the brave souls who stopped and realized that 2+2!=5 in the global warming bad science debate. In their memory and honor, post good links that show that global warming is about as real as my chance to score.
For those that disagree, please tell me im a mo-ron, but lets see your URLs as well
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Google indexes two billion web pages, which isn't far from your nine trillion combinations
Unless we get into weird language issues where you didnt mean billion and trillion like I mean them but...
0,002,000,000,000
2 Billion is no where NEAR 9 Trillinon - not even CLOSE
You have forgotten that a single page might contain more than one two word combination. There are many web pages out there which contain entire dictionaries and therefore every two word combination which can be generated from the dictionary.
Check googlewhack.com - dictionary pages and lists of words are disqualified (and thus taking google's 2 billion down a few).
Okay Im a big literature dork (not a spelling dork) and I named all the servers based of characters from Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. Then, I used shakespeare characters (we had one box prown to crashing named Hamlet, god that killed me - Im a loser). After that to please my co-worker, we did a few steven king titles and then some Clancy. Those were the only modern literature relations - the rest were all classic literature but pretty random. Cervantes, Poe, Melvil, Orwell (1984 and AFarm were both there), and so many more. Book titles, famous characters, and authors were all game. We tried hard to associate the server type with the character if we could
We had fights with management wanting names like MAIL01, MAIL02, etc. but I bit them down when I told them that if one server type ever got above 100 then it would be a bitch or over 1000, etc.
Upper management liked the scheme cause when they would show clients the server rooms they would see these great literature references on the boxes which made us look inteligent. Win + Win.
Im glad to see a company coming aboard of the GC train that will hopefully bring more sales to this truely awesome console.
Id just like to toss in my $.02 in that I was never and still am not a big fan of the FF series. More specifically - im not a fan of the whole RPG *thing*. The only RPG I have enjoyed was Earthbound (SNES) and I am told over and over that was not a true RPG. There have to be other/.ers that don't like RPGs (or is that like saying there are/.ers who dont like animie?)
I got to Wichita State University, www.wichita.edu . The bookstore offers NO DISCOUNTED SOFTWARE. All of the windows stuff, etc. is supra expensive! My friends go to IaState and they gave me the lowdown that MS is trying to offer them cheap software if and only if the campus switches over to MS software for 'everything'. And then, rumor has it (aka prolly just forget about this sentance) that they will only get subscription based products that the fee of $10 a year goes up to full price when they graduate.
I know WSU run Unix/Linux for all of their systems. All the laptops that they use for freshman initiaition/enrollment all run Red Hat Linux. Remote campuses PCs are owned buy whoever is working there at the time, one guy owns a mac, the other guy has a windows box, and the other is running FreeBSD -- all use an SSH connection over the WSU WAN to get to the student information.
If wichita state switched to MS, offered me cheap software and the rest of our campus but then had to dump their current well working setup - I doubt it would ever happen. Would it decrease piracy? Hell yes it would. IMHO I would pay $10 a pop for WinXp - but not $200. Same goes for Office, Dev apps, Photoshop, etc.
I have a Samsung Yepp E64 and it has this "phone number feature". Its kind of gimicky, but then again - so is this hack. I found myself just for the novalty of it entering in a few phone #s but I never use them and have deleted them to give me more room on my meesly 96 megs of space.
(I was moded -1 Troll last time I said this, so lets see what happens now)
When I was using X for an extended period of time due to my windows box being gone, the one thing that seriously bugged me were the fonts. I didnt know what was looking wrong with them until I saw a/. thread about AA Fonts and the lack there of in Linux at the time. This is really a great improvement and a much needed one at that. I just want to see this rolled into major releases and thus major distros and fast
Last year my aunt and my mother worked on a few of the fields that were out of rotation and just had some barley (i think) growing up that was to just let die. Well, once it got to be relatively tall, she used the GPS handheld to map out a big smiley face in the field and took the atv with miniplow out and made herself a big smiley face.
She then used one of the satalite imaging places to take a good picture of it and made some caption like "The Happiest place on Earth, Kansas", had them printed and sells them as suveniers all over here in KS. That has net'd her quite a bit of cash
Not no but hell know. Farmers are so grossly underpaid that many of them have no choice but to sell out to a corporation farm. Come here to KS during harvest and go to the co-op and find out how much they are paying for a bushell of wheat and ask any farmer dropping off about how much it cost him to grow that same bushell.
Farmers are GROSSLY under-paid and under-apriciated
Where the hell do you think all that food you eat comes from, the sky?
On my uncle's farm for the past 6 years +, he has been using GPS tools while in tractor and then back home to get better information on what exactly is going on. For example, if an irigation system dies, then it keeps the same possistion and he gets a page immediatly. If a tractor stays in the same possistion he knows something is wrong, immediate page. The GPS devices are also used to track rodent populations. We can go out, find out where the holes are and record their possistion. Then we combine that data year after year and know exactly how say the mole or ant population is in the fields. Another thing we used them for on the farm was ATV Paintballing...
I think almost every director of a movie could tweak and retweak his movies. That has come even more so aparent after listening to more and more director's commentary.
At some point, it needs to be "final" - but since I dont own any version, I dont mind.
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I will say that the phone people and the first CE I delt with was a okay
they two frik and fraks kill me
... This is Offtopic and Flamebait but hopefully it is interesting and informative as well. The 4 should balance to where it is just "okay"
I have been doing work on IBM AS400s of recent, mainly installing ethernet cards into 9402-400s, 9401-150s. Well, I had two machines completely die on me.
I followed the instructions from the repair / maintanance manual on installing and removing hardware to a T. Didnt swap hardware while the machine was hot, I was grounded, etc etc etc.
The two machines have warrentys on all the hardware but no where on the machine does it say working with it, removing the case, etc. voids your warrenty. There are no break me, void warrenty stickers. I was using IBM instructions on 100% IBM hardware doing a standard install -- nothing crazy.
There is no direct evidence linking the two sepereate ethernet cards and cages to the death of two seperate machines. Granted, its a coincidence that should be considered but there is no 100% proof. The fact that two seperate cards were used and the unlikelyness that a bad card would completely kill a system (namely the CPU card) is far fetched. More often do you see AS400s that die when powered down and moved. Its not insane to think that these very old machines were just waiting to have something fuck up on them.
However, the two incompotent IBM techs that came out to the second machine are crying fowl saying the machine itself is not under warrenty. This flys in the face of what Ive been told from the company I do this for and what I have read! Granted, these techs "rarely work on AS400s" and didnt know a single fucking thing other then to look in the manual. Had the office not had the repair manual, they woulda been fucked. They also had to have a tech on the phone the whole god damn time. They did not bring a 7mm socket to get into the system so they had to use my power driver and sockets. They removed and handled the CPU card w/o grounding themselves (one guy pulled it and just handed it to the other guy who was on the phone to read a SN). They left the machine on, w/ error code, overnight with everything just scattered this way and that.
So - now we are just waiting to see what kind of outrageous bill they send to my offices. Re-damn-diculous.
But, thats why I no likey the IBM. Im sure there are going to be replies that say of course I voided the warrenty, tell me that I am a moron and broke it, but I will be 100% honest -- I really don't thing it had anything to do with what I did.
Since I can not link directly to this article I will quote Kyle from HardOCP.com - and as of 8:18 CST March 28th, this can still be found on the Front Page of www.hardocp.com.
I just off the phone with the fine folks over at AMD and was discussing the issues over the Aberdeen Group white paper. Aberdeen, if you are unfamiliar with them, claims to be a Market Analysis company. If this is all new to you, please visit the InqWell as well as ZDNet on this issue.
There are two situations in this issue that are fun to look at. If you go read the white paper entitled AMD's Gigahertz Equivalency: Inexperienced Buyers Accept Bad Science, published here (and you will have to sign up) you will notice that Aberdeen uses flawed logic to pick on AMD's model numbering system of their CPUs.
Nevertheless, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) last year deliberately took a step down a slippery slope of bad science when it named its Athlon XP line of microprocessor models with clock-speed gigahertz ratings equivalent to Intel's competing Pentium 4 (P4), based on a set of application
benchmarks audited by Arthur Andersen and fully described in AMD vs. Intel comparisons at AMD's Web site.
And then..
What's the flaw in AMD's equivalency ratings? There are many discussed in this Aberdeen Executive White Paper. The key flaw is that the equivalency rating is a snapshot in a moment in time -- and time surely marches on in the computer industry -- making the gigahertz equivalency subject to increasing variance over time. For example, the AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processor announced last fall runs at 1.667 GHz. The 2000+ equivalency rating is aimed at Intel's P4 2.0 GHz Willamette processor.
Aberdeen seems clueless that the basis for AMD's model numbering system is a comparison to their own TBird core CPUs and the speed they would have to run to be equivalent to a Palomino core CPU in performance. Seems as though Aberdeen did not even contact AMD in order to better understand the exact subject they were commenting on.
The other part of this situation is this. It is now being rumored that Intel paid for the white paper.
But the INQUIRER learned from Intel this morning that it paid for the report to be written, which certainly puts a different complexion on the thrust of the piece. Intel maintains, however, that fact doesn't affect the objectivity of the Aberdeen Group's findings. Cough.
While I have no idea of the validity of this claim, I will tell you this. I think of all of these "market analysis" companies as no more than paid mouthpieces of the hardware industry. Some are scumbags that make a living off taking a product and making it look good to distributors and consumers. They are spinmeisters looking for a buck and will spin their "truths" to support their clients needs. If you think market analysis companies are in this hardware industry to make sure that you, the consumer, get the truth, you are sadly mistaken. Is this to say all anylysts bad and are always wrong? Of course not, but I give them about as much credibility as a 4th grader with a Geocities site. At least the 4th grader most likely has purer motives.
I think it was one of these industry analysts that referred to sites such as our own as "homebrewed" and that we bascially did not deserve the voice that we have in the hardware community. I guess even we piss off the analysts when we uncover the truth that does not agree with their spin.
Anyway, this is all my opinion and subject to just flat being wrong but there is one thing I will tell you for sure and that is that the hardware industry has a nasty underbelly just about like every other industry in this world.
UPDATE: From the cards and letters we have gotten on this subject everyone seems to be missing the point of my little diatribe posted above. The rating methodology wars are over in my mind, and have been for a long time now as Aberdeen is way late to this party. The opinion I want you know about analyst companies is that they are simply all bought and paid for and expected to spin the agenda of their client.
Also, Intel did share with us tonight that they did finance the Aberdeen research into the AMD rating system.
As long as you guys are smart enough to form your own opinions and thoughts, which most of your are, just make sure you don't let these "analyst" companies shape your opinions as some are nothing more than a PR company that runs a couple of benchmarks. In this case Aberdeen based their entire opinion on BABPCo Sysmark 2001 and Quake III numbers.
You guys would hunt me down and whip my ass if I ever gave you a review based on that little data.
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What can I use my journal for?
What can't you use your journal for? You can use it for whatever you'd like, we don't care.
A recent slashdot story covered this
try searching for VNC or EULA and im sure you will find it
It is recent enough its prolly not archived
Im leaving that to you guys. I wanted to make sure that this point was brought up (Im 99% sure but I didnt wanna chance it) so I wanted to start the thread.
Yes, Im a thread starter, a dirty dirty thread starter
You mean - Ice Melts cause the sun is hot? Im gonna have to jump on the side of the facts that say "global warming is bullshit" just like those before me in the 70s said global cooling was bullshit. Id like to dedicate this thread to the brave souls who stopped and realized that 2+2!=5 in the global warming bad science debate. In their memory and honor, post good links that show that global warming is about as real as my chance to score.
For those that disagree, please tell me im a mo-ron, but lets see your URLs as well
Google indexes two billion web pages, which isn't far from your nine trillion combinations
...
Unless we get into weird language issues where you didnt mean billion and trillion like I mean them but
0,002,000,000,000
2 Billion is no where NEAR 9 Trillinon - not even CLOSE
You have forgotten that a single page might contain more than one two word combination. There are many web pages out there which contain entire dictionaries and therefore every two word combination which can be generated from the dictionary.
Check googlewhack.com - dictionary pages and lists of words are disqualified (and thus taking google's 2 billion down a few).
Googlewhacking will be around for a LONG TIME.
Exactly :P
im stealing your cities in mexico and adding volcanos for a server farm ill be setting up shortly that will have 50 boxen
Tnx
After reading this I could only think of the "Whose on first" routine
Boot up.
Which server?
Up.
or something
Okay Im a big literature dork (not a spelling dork) and I named all the servers based of characters from Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. Then, I used shakespeare characters (we had one box prown to crashing named Hamlet, god that killed me - Im a loser). After that to please my co-worker, we did a few steven king titles and then some Clancy. Those were the only modern literature relations - the rest were all classic literature but pretty random. Cervantes, Poe, Melvil, Orwell (1984 and AFarm were both there), and so many more. Book titles, famous characters, and authors were all game. We tried hard to associate the server type with the character if we could
We had fights with management wanting names like MAIL01, MAIL02, etc. but I bit them down when I told them that if one server type ever got above 100 then it would be a bitch or over 1000, etc.
Upper management liked the scheme cause when they would show clients the server rooms they would see these great literature references on the boxes which made us look inteligent. Win + Win.
ICQ is in eternal Beta
I think there are a few programs - CS was a beta for a long time but not as long as ICQ
There were a few BBS doors I saw for years that were betas and never hit that 1.0 stage
im much more for getting a working product even with bugs and calling it 1.0
Compare that to any other war and its NOTHING
I guess clarified no real statistical loss of life
yes people died and that sucked but damn, when the news gets to say "one soldier died today" - thats not half bad
and when we get the luxury of saying "we can strike when few people are there" thats not half bad either
War still sucks tho
Im glad to see a company coming aboard of the GC train that will hopefully bring more sales to this truely awesome console.
/.ers that don't like RPGs (or is that like saying there are /.ers who dont like animie?)
Id just like to toss in my $.02 in that I was never and still am not a big fan of the FF series. More specifically - im not a fan of the whole RPG *thing*. The only RPG I have enjoyed was Earthbound (SNES) and I am told over and over that was not a true RPG. There have to be other
Where do we go to ask questions about /.? Also - why don't I see "Have you metamoderated" today anymore?
I got to Wichita State University, www.wichita.edu . The bookstore offers NO DISCOUNTED SOFTWARE. All of the windows stuff, etc. is supra expensive! My friends go to IaState and they gave me the lowdown that MS is trying to offer them cheap software if and only if the campus switches over to MS software for 'everything'. And then, rumor has it (aka prolly just forget about this sentance) that they will only get subscription based products that the fee of $10 a year goes up to full price when they graduate.
I know WSU run Unix/Linux for all of their systems. All the laptops that they use for freshman initiaition/enrollment all run Red Hat Linux. Remote campuses PCs are owned buy whoever is working there at the time, one guy owns a mac, the other guy has a windows box, and the other is running FreeBSD -- all use an SSH connection over the WSU WAN to get to the student information.
If wichita state switched to MS, offered me cheap software and the rest of our campus but then had to dump their current well working setup - I doubt it would ever happen. Would it decrease piracy? Hell yes it would. IMHO I would pay $10 a pop for WinXp - but not $200. Same goes for Office, Dev apps, Photoshop, etc.
I have a Samsung Yepp E64 and it has this "phone number feature". Its kind of gimicky, but then again - so is this hack. I found myself just for the novalty of it entering in a few phone #s but I never use them and have deleted them to give me more room on my meesly 96 megs of space.
Servers - Taxes - $$ for the people - Taxes
That cash would not last very long!
(I was moded -1 Troll last time I said this, so lets see what happens now)
/. thread about AA Fonts and the lack there of in Linux at the time. This is really a great improvement and a much needed one at that. I just want to see this rolled into major releases and thus major distros and fast
When I was using X for an extended period of time due to my windows box being gone, the one thing that seriously bugged me were the fonts. I didnt know what was looking wrong with them until I saw a
My aunt and uncle's farm has had a computer on it prolly longer then most geeks here have had one
They have been using computers for longer then Ive been alive helping them with data
Last year my aunt and my mother worked on a few of the fields that were out of rotation and just had some barley (i think) growing up that was to just let die. Well, once it got to be relatively tall, she used the GPS handheld to map out a big smiley face in the field and took the atv with miniplow out and made herself a big smiley face.
She then used one of the satalite imaging places to take a good picture of it and made some caption like "The Happiest place on Earth, Kansas", had them printed and sells them as suveniers all over here in KS. That has net'd her quite a bit of cash
Not no but hell know. Farmers are so grossly underpaid that many of them have no choice but to sell out to a corporation farm. Come here to KS during harvest and go to the co-op and find out how much they are paying for a bushell of wheat and ask any farmer dropping off about how much it cost him to grow that same bushell.
Farmers are GROSSLY under-paid and under-apriciated
Where the hell do you think all that food you eat comes from, the sky?
On my uncle's farm for the past 6 years +, he has been using GPS tools while in tractor and then back home to get better information on what exactly is going on. For example, if an irigation system dies, then it keeps the same possistion and he gets a page immediatly. If a tractor stays in the same possistion he knows something is wrong, immediate page. The GPS devices are also used to track rodent populations. We can go out, find out where the holes are and record their possistion. Then we combine that data year after year and know exactly how say the mole or ant population is in the fields. Another thing we used them for on the farm was ATV Paintballing ...
I think almost every director of a movie could tweak and retweak his movies. That has come even more so aparent after listening to more and more director's commentary.
At some point, it needs to be "final" - but since I dont own any version, I dont mind.