Recent content by Jimmyjammer

So you're saying you could care less? Therefore inferring that you care a certain amount about what people here think, interesting. I wonder what your Ghandi would have said, methinks something akin to: I fight no wars. Yet I will fight any war my master tells me to. And I shall staab people...

[q}Pleasure without conscience (sex and all your other sins ... They made sex a sin?.....Awww gawd!

Close but no cigar. Quite a lot older than 17, travelling the world working as a software contractor and have recently landed a job with a small company that I've (via software programming) helped grow quite a bit. Now they're running into hardware issues which isn't my area of expertise. Most...

Thanks for all the answers guys, I'm finally learning about RAID arrays (seen them mentioned here a few times but always ignored it). So the general consensus seems to be a decent desktop will do the trick, but backing up is of high importance. I've already implemented a backup routine for the...

Well this is a sticky issue and it's why I'm trying to learn as much as possible. Basically if I said to the bosses that we need to spend 10K on this they'll moan and groan but will pay up. However, I'm not just an 'employee' here and actually do care about the money being spent so I'm trying to...

None taken but I'm the guy who has to make the call so I'm trying to educated myself. I'm quite au fait with most common computing issues and am aware how most companies will try to upsell anything they try to sell you. So I'm trying to educated myself, already I'll be armed with knowledge if...

A ha! So essentially a server is a hybrid PC that is specifically made for letting it run multiple processes and deal with them without crashing. I wonder why they don't use more of the latest CPUs....I mean surely two 3ghz CPUS running together are going to beat two 1.5ghz CPUs running together.

Cool, ok so say if I needed a server for an office with about 10 employees all running Outlook 2000. I've read a bit about Exchange server and the hardware it requires and I'm trying to decide if we should get a proper server or just buy a very powerful desktop and have it full of RAM and HDD...

So they're more stable than a normal PC? Is this cause of the lack of an OS or do they run OSes? What makes them more stable? I've read up on ECC RAM and see that it error corrects and that's all good but why don't desktops use it to gain more stability and lessen crashes? Sorry again if...

So, scsi drives I can understand, but are EIDE drives still *way* behind in terms of speed or have they nearly caught up to scsi speed? I remember a friend saying they're nearly equal, but he's not the most reliable source. ECC memory, not sure what that is, will research. How about an OS...

Just wondering, I've been looking at servers and the specs are always a lot lower then similarly priced desktops (lower speed, less HDD etc) and I'm curious. What makes a server a server? I mean, why are they so expensive when you get (seemingly) a lot less oomph!? Are they built differently...

Yeah but stealing at that speed isn't a crime, it's a luxury :) !!

Sickening....being stuck on 56K is such a killer. God, you guys could just see an ad on TV for some album and then have it downloaded in about 5 mins!!!

So that's about 187K a sec in real terms? Wow.

Just curious about broadband speeds and prices in America. Broadband (whether cable, DSL etc etc) where I'm from is highly expensive (USD$60 a month) and is also capped in terms of bandwidth AND download limit. So you're given a quota of about 3 gig per month and if you go over that you pay per...