The Official Status Thread
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512MB DDR?
damn that's an old computer they gave you!
they could have at least sprung for DDR2
@Intercourse said:
Going back to DDR1 is not going to help with productivity...
dunno what you guys are talking about
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What happens if the PSU is dead?
...and if it is on fire, this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/USCG_AFFF.JPG
...will improve productivity. ;)
<I deliberately chose an AB fire extinguisher, to see if any pedants would call me on it>
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much moar expensive
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@boomzilla, @pjh could one of you look back in the history and find proof that chubert used DDR not DDR3?
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find proof that chubert used DDR not DDR3?
Yep, he is a cheeky bastard.
At least he did not grab a picture of magnetic core memory?
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this stuff?
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@boomzilla, @pjh could one of you look back in the history and find proof that chubert used DDR not DDR3?
Pfft, I'd tell you that I did, just so I can flaunt the fact that I did and you don't have proof!
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Filed under: Mod abuse
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I didn't ask--I just grabbed an unused second 22". Of course, I had to bring in my own video card to use it.
Then when we had a couple people retire, and I grabbed a third, but that was just for convenience for when I'm doing something to/with a different machine.
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thanks @pjh!
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FTFY.
An admin is a mod, but a mod isn't always an admin. And either can be squares, it seems.
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An admin is a mod, but a mod isn't always an admin.
Nope. It's entirely possible to have an Admin who isn't a Mod.
(And no - I don't know off-hand what mods can do that admins can't.)
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(And no - I don't know off-hand what mods can do that admins can't.)
"A mod by any other name..."
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I know that, and you know that, but most people who hire developers do not know that.
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Well the only difference I do know about is the Mod icon doesn't appear on Admin only accounts... (see Sam or Jeff's for example, compared to mine and Boomzilla's)
I'm sure there must be some other differences...
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Well the only difference I do know about is the Mod icon doesn't appear on Admin only accounts... (see Sam or Jeff's for example, compared to mine and Boomzilla's)
I thought it appeared for Admins, if they wanted it to.
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(And no - I don't know off-hand what mods can do that admins can't.)
otherway around actually
i think anyway. AFAIK an admin is basically auto sudo root. (except you don't get shell access to the server)
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I haven't seen a memory constrained computer in years.
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I'd like to be able to shut down my computers cleanly before the power gets cut.
UPS
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I thought it appeared for Admins, if they wanted it to.
No. An admin can grant themselves mod if they want, in which case it will appear. It's this bit:
My mod icon is just me messing around with the site CSS.
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Ah. Got it.
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Not sure if trolling
Uninterruptible Power Supply
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UPS
United Parcel Service?
Uruguayan Penis Slicer.
That was painful to type.
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Notsure if trollingFTFY
but that also is the old expansion of UPS the shipping company (i think they changed it so they are no longer an acronym years back)
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I'm not that young. Heck, my Dad works for UPS freight
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I haven't seen a memory constrained computer in years.
You obviously haven't worked anywhere where they purchase from the "low" end of Dell's small business offerings. Win7-x64, 2GB of RAM
Edit: and an i3...
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I know that, and you know that, but most people who hire developers do not know that.
Jesus H Christ! Did you and I just agree on something?!? ;)
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heh
Meh, an SSD improves the user experience quite a bit but the gains in productivity are nothing like you get from having multiple monitors. If I had to choose, I would take triple monitors and spinning rust over a single monitor and an SSD every single time.
With the prices of SSDs as low as they are though, there is no reason you couldn't have both. Happy employees are productive employees.
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Status: I found out today that one of my clients is closing their doors at the end of the year. They are extremely low-volume, so it will not effect us at all, but I feel really bad for their employees. That will really put a damper on their Christmas.
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Win7-x64, 2GB of RAM
That ... TDEMSYR.
Please note that "You" in this case refers not to @smallshellscript, but the company which I assume gave him this experience. And Dell which even offers this option.
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Thank you for your anecdote.
Isn't the plural of "anecdote", "data"? The internets seem to think so.
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You're thinking of "irrefutable truth"
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Please note that "You" in this case refers not to @smallshellscript, but the company which I assume gave him this experience. And Dell which even offers this option.
That would be my supervisor, who's not a "computer" kind of guy. I haven't bought a system w/ less than 8GB since I got voluntold I was responsible for all of our IT hardware.
The scary thing about those 2GB systems is that they aren't even always the cheapest. Just now looked and a 4GB Win8 system using an "Intel Pentium" is cheaper than a 2GB system with Win7 and some sort of Celeron. I just keep any of the existing machines around to give to people who annoy me.
The most most thing that Dell does though is not populate slots on the motherboard making upgrading more troublesome also the whole "small form factor" thing sucks, gotta love a computer you can't get access to to replace components - "but it makes my desk look so much cleaner".
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The scary thing about those 2GB systems is that they aren't even always the cheapest.
I bet it's a non-standard option, so it comes with a customization fee.
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@Intercourse said:
Isn't the plural of "anecdote", "data"? The internets seem to think so.
Well, "data" is the plural of "datum", and the plural of "anecdote" would be "anecdotes".
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You obviously haven't worked anywhere where they purchase from the "low" end of Dell's small business offerings. Win7-x64, 2GB of RAM
Speaking of that, Micro Center's offering a 7" Win 8 tablet for $60, but it's only got a gig of RAM. I have to wonder if that's even useful for web browsing.
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also the whole "small form factor" thing sucks, gotta love a computer you can't get access to to replace components - "but it makes my desk look so much cleaner".
Back when low-height desktops came out someone on a forum somewhere made a crack about the only thing they were useful for was if you had low-flying aircraft in your office.
SFF "cubes" are nice for LAN party machines; not much else. Dell's mini towers are lame, but at least you can get in 'em. (We have a Vostro 230 whose hard drive died last year so I got to see inside of it. I slapped the hard drive from a dead laptop in it, put Win 10 on it, and am using it as a low-powered web server for internal testing.)
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I have to wonder if that's even useful for web browsing.
Would love to see how that handles Discourse. My FF instance from 4 hours ago is up over 1.3GB at this point.