Posted on 08/22/2006 8:22:41 PM PDT by HAL9000
1 x heatsink fan delta high output
1 x ATI video card fan from a 8500 All-in-wonder
no they have magic elves design their parts.. omg.. and they get them from the magic factory
Geez, ET, 9 failures out of 25-30 computers? That's a 33% failure rate!
I'll stick with Apple, thanks.
so Apple doesn't use Ati fans or they have never used IBM hard drives or Pioneer dvd drives? hmmm..
Using substandard parts, eh?
it also has a lifetime warranty so... whats the problem?
we had a pretty bad thunderstorm last night and now its not working! grrrrrrrrrr :(
I hope to get it figured out before the Bears play friday. :)
Go Bears! hehe...
Still can't bring myself to trust a sat dish for TV. I'm looking forward to fiber optic cable TV delivery myself.
It won't convince anyone, but I ditched cable for DSS about five years ago and have never looked back. Cable was out for days at a time, and many channels were unwatchable most of the time. With DSS every channel is the same high quality. I've lost maybe an hour total in five years due to rainstorms.
I'll be up the rest of the night repairing a P.O.S. Dell server that has a badly corrupted file system. Grrrrr...
IT's not a matter of "keeping the good stuff" - it is about OEM specifications. Even with Apple's relatively small market share - you can bet that if Steve Jobs calls up ATI (or nVidia) and says he wants x-model video card - but wants this connector, this gpu, this memory config, and this particular board configuration, they won't accept and deliver? We are still talking about millions of $$$.
My current desktop machine - an Apple MDD PowerMac dual 1Ghz- came with a Pioneer "SuperDrive" that has worked flawlessly. In comparing it physically to the other OEM and retail packaged versions of the same drive, there are minor differences. Apple specifies some firmware that may restrict certain features of the drive that may be problematic.
Also - Apple's implementation of said hardware (stock/OEM) also enables tigher integration - which causes less conflicts (I have heard that up to 90% of warranty/service work on PC's is actually software related or caused). Reduce the software-related problems and you have made a significan dent in the service calls.
But even when adding OEM and Retail packaged add-ons (like additional hard dries/PCI cards/etc.), I have not encountered the same trouble that some PC users find.
Maybe the component suppliers are not often the trouble - it could be that the specifications by Apple are tight enough on the assembly end, that things just work better --- who knows.
What really is important - owner satisfaction - and Apple has long been a leader.
what are you complaining about...? just remember, job security.. :)
It's a volunteer job for a non-profit agency that helps developmentally disabled people. I'm glad to donate my services, but this fiasco that started when the ISP changed the static IP address without warning, the day before a big fundraiser, and I was out of town at a funeral with my cell phone turned off, so the agency people tried to fix it themselves - big mistake. I only slept a couple of hours last night, and I was looking forward to a nap today. Fortunately, after a lot of experience installing Linux servers, it didn't take to long to get the vital services restored.
couldn't you setup a router to use a static ip for them?
It was a headless server and it normally runs for several months without a reboot. They just abruptly shut off the power and tried to attach a monitor in order to try to change the IP address. (If they had used VNC instead as intended, it might have worked.) Then they called the ISP and begged them to temporarily restore the old address - but the file system was already destroyed at that point by the power interruption.
After I got home from the funeral and heard what happened, I had to drive over there, which took about an hour, reinstall the OS after the quick rescue attempt failed, restore the data, etc. I suspect the disk drive was writing a cached file catalog when they pulled the plug. I could have fiddled with fsck for a while and possibly fixed it, but it was quicker to just wipe it clean and start fresh. I see some sectors marked unusable now, so fsck may not have worked ultimately.
I have shortened the DNS cache times for an orderly midnight transition in a day or two.
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