Posts by Carl Williams 63 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Aug 2007
Looks like the Panasonic CF series to me, we have a lot of them here at work due to the industry we are in and they are indeed very hardy and if this machine is in fact a re-badged clone which it certainly looks like, it should also be good at what it does. As a normal laptop though don't bother, they are slow and very clunky to use.
"I have a work blackberry and a personal iPhone. The IT department recently discovered the BB's fantastic security features and turned them all on. As a result, the phone runs like a dog and I run out of battery just after lunchtime. I've stopped calling from it because the password requirements are ridiculous and it always takes 3 times to get it right. In short, they've turned a great business phone into a useless piece of plastic junk.
So, I've diverted my BB number to the iPhone and regularly have to forward business emails from the company's fantastically secure servers to my personal account on privy GMail so I can actually access my data and do my work. the BB stays at home most days."
You would be one of those twats that would leave a laptop on a train with my confidential details on. You will have already broken company policy by forwarding potentially confidential mails to an outside account so are already guilty of Gross Misconduct. I hope that your IT dept have knowledge of this and you are sacked you self important moron.
Because they are crap under Vista (and a certain extent XP as well), GFX cards generate random DTR's and BSODs Nvidia hasn't fixed it yet in over 12 months, Nforce2 and 3 chipsets are not supported under Vista (or anything at all anymore), I will not be buying anything from this cunch of bunts again.
SP1 work fine on my x2 with VIA chipset and Radeon 9600XT. Also went without a hitch on my Dell Inspiron 1520. One ultimate, one Home Premium. File copy is faster for sure, but other than that no real disernable difference.
No warning, but that's probably because I use my old ISP's POP mail (but from what I hear SKY didn't email people anyway) so I could keep the mail addy I have had for 8 years and only used Sky for the SMTP service. Now I must find my sky username and password and probably actually have to start using their mail service as it will strip out my details and replies will go to an account that i don't use.
What a PITA, they could have written to me to explain this.
Should I leave? Don't know the connection has been OK and only has to be reset occasionally and it's fairly cheap too.
Carl.
With the amount of disks in it and the fact you have to withdraw it from the rack and remove the lid to change a failed drive (and with the heat that is bound to build because of the amount crammed in it will happen). It doesn't even look as if you can see a failed disk from the outside of the box. For IT manager and support personnel this box would be their worst nightmare, stoopid design.
I recently purchased a Lacie Etherdisk Mini, which doesn't need a separate client to work on windows, just standard network drive mappings and holds and shares mp3, wma and avi without any problems and transfer speeds are good too, it supports 1000mb jumbo frames for streaming media. It is far faster and more reliable than the £50 NAS cases you can buy (I have two of those as well) and comes in 500mb, 750mb and 1TB versions. Perfect for the home or soho network file store.
It is possible to have a fast reliable Windows PC 'if' you don't load it with every piece of random shite on the web. Here is a couple of cases in point.
My friends daughters PC I built for her 2 years ago and gave her admin rights and at least every month there was something wrong until after about 8 months she finally goosed it with a dodgy messenger install. So I re-built it and gave her only guest rights. 14 months or so on all i have had to do is update messenger once and plug the USB wireless card back into the right port after it was moved.
The wifes laptop is never installed with anything unless I say so, running faultlessly for 2 years.
Could this be because I have a clue as to what I am doing?????
Could this also be due to the fact that in comparision to Windows there is very little 'random shite' software to download for OSX?
Being forced to buy a new PC with Vista installed I thought i'd at least try it out but the annoying OS coupled with the manufacturers bloatware and a blue screen after 3 days made me downgrade to XP. Even though it isn't officially supported and drivers were taken from another models library it works fine and is much faster now. Better still no blue screens.
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