• Mikey2 (unregistered) in reply to Top Cod3r
    Top Cod3r:
    At my company, we keep the servers in the main room with all the employees. It saves alot of money because the employees and the computer equipment can share the same air conditioning unit, and in the winter the heat from the servers can offset your heating bills. This is what being a "green" company is all about.

    Another reason why we like it better this way is when you need to reboot the server you can walk right over to it and flip the switch. No need to ask the server admin.

    What about the fact that being in a room with an ambient sound level of 90+ dB damaging all the employees hearing over time... Sure saves a LOT of money when you get sued by you employees for damaging their hearing....

  • matt (unregistered)

    "If you really think about it, the fact that anything on a computer works is amazing. "

    gods honest truth.

  • Franz Kafka (unregistered) in reply to FredSaw
    FredSaw:
    Patrick:
    I call bullshit.
    Does it come running?

    If I came running, I'd certainly run more.

    Top Cod3r:
    At my company, we keep the servers in the main room with all the employees. It saves alot of money because the employees and the computer equipment can share the same air conditioning unit, and in the winter the heat from the servers can offset your heating bills. This is what being a "green" company is all about.

    Another reason why we like it better this way is when you need to reboot the server you can walk right over to it and flip the switch. No need to ask the server admin.

    This is also called penny wise/pound foolish.

    1. janitor unplugs server to plug in vacuum or just turns off the computers taht noone is using.
    2. building shuts off AC on the weekend.
    3. dumbass turns off wrong computers
    4. anyone in the office could just steal the servers (meaning anyone physically in the office)
    5. Now the AC unit is mission critical and nonredundant.
  • Franz Kafka (unregistered) in reply to Leonidas
    Leonidas:
    That is why it is called k(ibi)Byte instead of k(ibi)Bit.

    And it better be 'accessed' every second or so ... just for refreshing it ;)

    Kibibytes are just a delusion created by NIST for a problem that doesn't exist.

  • (cs) in reply to Patrick
    Patrick:
    I call bullshit.
    Ah, more joyful memories of personal WTFs from the past.

    Ten years ago I was the "Asynchronous Protocol Engineer" (no, I don't know what it means, either) for a large, worldwide, financial company. Even back then, ban... er, their customers tended to use X.25, SNA, TCP/IP, almost anything rather than async. My job consisted of playing a lot of solitaire and waiting for a problem to come in.

    The second problem arrived a mere three months into the job. From Our Man in Botswana.

    Apparently they had a very, very flaky async connection from the modem to the outside world. The modem lost sync at random intervals, and for random periods of time. I asked all the obvious questions: "Have you got line-boosting equipment in between the phone socket and the phone company's connection box?" (Yes, they had.) "How far is it from the computer to the phone socket?" (Around fifteen feet.) "Are there monkeys swinging on the wire outside?" (This may sound like a silly question, but it has been known to affect the Military in Malaysia.) "There are no monkeys in Botswana."

    Well, yes, I knew that, but I was getting desperate. Finally I asked them to send me a colour picture of the installation.

    It was all I could think of to do.

    The picture arrived a week later. It featured a computer, a wall-socket about fifteen feet away, a chair, a desk, and ...

    two hundred feet of modem cable, with insulation looking about twenty years old, all neatly coiled in a heap about three feet in diameter.

    Now you can call bullshit on that one, too, but I Was There.

    We sent them out fifteen feet of new modem cabling the next day by Fedex. It was cheaper than another three months of my time.

    I also tried to save them $500,000 by sourcing discontinued modems for Y2K testing off a bulk discount company, but they told me that the Y2K budget wouldn't stretch to anything that cheap. But that's another story.

  • JAlexoid (unregistered) in reply to stupid old me
    Or better yet, relocate the office to an arctic region!

    The irony would that they would connect servers and switches to the heating unit there :) And Yay! Outages all year round.

  • Alan Balkany (unregistered)

    Designers have considered the possibility that one of the billions of bits in a computer system could go bad, and often use codes to detect and/or correct these errors.

    The simplest is a parity check, where an extra bit is added to each byte to make every byte odd (or even). Any byte with the wrong parity indicates an error.

    More elaborate schemes (like Hamming codes) can even tell WHICH bit went bad, and correct it transparently to the user.

  • Frank Bruno (unregistered)

    There are a few items I call "credit report killers" that your clients should be aware of that can adversly affect their credit report and credit scores.

    There really isn't too much room here to explain in detail but I have actually made a video about the top 10 credit report killers. This video was made form the .pdf version which I wrote.

    In this video I answer the most common questions I get about information that appears on credit reports.

    Specifically I cover information on Charge-offs, Collection Accounts, Judgments, Inquiries, Bankruptcies, Delinquencies,and more...

    In the video Your clients will learn what each of these items are and how they can affect their credit report, as well as how long each item can remain on your credit report.

    The video is very informative and is solid content for your readers and clients.

    The Video is Free to Watch Here

    The .pdf version you can download here Free

    Sincerely Credit Expert Frank Bruno http://www.DisputeDemon.com

  • IByte (unregistered)
    Jake Vinson:
    ...but I'm in awe of the fact that my computer doesn't just randomly catch fire and explode.
    Wait... you mean yours doesn't?
  • David Schwartz (unregistered)

    I didn't know magnets could be assembled into files. You learn something new every day.

    CAPTCHA: "yummy"

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