the *OFFICIAL* core 2 duo midnight release thread 2.0!!!

[sunzt]

Originally posted by: yacoub
Unfortunately I'm old enough to have to work so I can't enjoy things like staying up late on a work night (ie every night preceeding a work day (ie, Sun night through Thurs night)) let alone staying up overnight.

Bah, work as an excuse plzzz.... get your priorities straight! I work tomorrow too, but I know that caffeine can solve any problems i would get! :-D

 

[Henny]

Originally posted by: Kwint Sommer

Originally posted by: Henny

Originally posted by: Kwint Sommer

Originally posted by: zizo
I need an E6600 for 350$! Nothing more. :brokenheart:

Likewise and I really don't even want to pay that much.

$324 and free freight for a E6600

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The price is good but when will they ship? It has been saying 1 to 2 weeks for the last 10 days...

Then if time is critical buy this one:

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[Some1ne]

Bah, work as an excuse plzzz.... get your priorities straight! I work tomorrow too, but I know that caffeine can solve any problems i would get! :-D

Yep, I'd wager most anyone contemplating building a conroe based system on the day of the release probably has their own source of income. I have a job too, but it's a cushy job and I don't have to show up until noon (well technically, I don't have to show up at all, though I always try to get there by noon because it helps keep my sleeping pattern sane...if I don't give myself something during the day to be up for, my sleeping pattern fully inverts itself in less than the space of a week, and then I'm nocturnal).

 

[Nightmare225]

Originally posted by: Some1ne

Bah, work as an excuse plzzz.... get your priorities straight! I work tomorrow too, but I know that caffeine can solve any problems i would get! :-D

Yep, I'd wager most anyone contemplating building a conroe based system on the day of the release probably has their own source of income. I have a job too, but it's a cushy job and I don't have to show up until noon (well technically, I don't have to show up at all, though I always try to get there by noon because it helps keep my sleeping pattern sane...if I don't give myself something during the day to be up for, my sleeping pattern fully inverts itself in less than the space of a week, and then I'm nocturnal).

What do you do, lol?

P.S. Only one hour

 

[xestanz]

@Nightmare225, For newegg, since it's a California company, the first time around everything believed it would be PST so actually 4 hours.

 

[sunzt]

I wouldn't base the release date on EST time, remember it's only LEGAL to sell on 8/7 and that is relative to their time (PST mostly)

Edit: Xestanz beat me too it...

 

[Some1ne]

What do you do, lol?

Enterprise-level software engineering, at a "distributed" company. Basically people can work from anywhere where they can get Internet access, since everything just gets checked into SVN servers anyways.

P.S. Only one hour

On the east coast, yes, but my suspicion is that newegg operates on west-coast time, since that is where their HQ is. So 1+3 hours.

 

[Kwint Sommer]

Well, in 6 mintues we get to see if NewEgg or ZZF really really love us. Odds are they will post at midnight PST but we'll find out soon.

 

[dasmokedog]

Originally posted by: Kwint Sommer
Well, in 6 mintues we get to see if NewEgg or ZZF really really love us. Odds are they will post at midnight PST but we'll find out soon.

nothing i guess its 3 more hours

 

[Pixle]

So who else is staying up late...?

 

[secretanchitman]

2-3 more hours!

gonna go ut2k4 it up for now. talk to you all in a bit!

 

[TheSynth]

I am! I've waited long enough. I don't want to wake up to an Auto-Notify link!

 

[Kwint Sommer]

So where is the line between being a very small scale DOS attack and really wanting to buy a product? I would say auto-refreshing every 15 seconds.

 

[Pixle]

Originally posted by: Kwint Sommer
So where is the line between being a very small scale DOS attack and really wanting to buy a product? I would say auto-refreshing every 15 seconds.

Is their an auto refresh option with ie?

 

[LittleNemoNES]

god I hope there are some left when I wake up in the morning -- not to mention a mobo.

 

[xestanz]

Originally posted by: Kwint Sommer
So where is the line between being a very small scale DOS attack and really wanting to buy a product? I would say auto-refreshing every 15 seconds.

Haha, ya, around 12EST (8 here) I had it on 5 secs, but I figure I'll just set it 30mins before 12.

@Pixle, not that I know of, but there is a plug-in for Firefox earlier in this thread.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: Kwint Sommer
So where is the line between being a very small scale DOS attack and really wanting to buy a product? I would say auto-refreshing every 15 seconds.

I don't know. If I were their sys admin, and every geek in America was auto-refreshing my/their site every 15 seconds, I'm pretty sure I'd just take down the page for a few hours. If they don't have very good servers or very good bandwidth, it would still feel like a DOS attack.:shocked: <--"How many hits last night?"

 

[rklaver]

Originally posted by: secretanchitman
im going to be staying up for the "releases" tonight.

whos with me? rklaver, i know you cant sit this one out! haha...

Woooo!

Made it right in time... Hi Everybody!

You know I couldn't miss this one. 3rd times a charm right?

 

[diser]

Made it right in time... Hi Everybody!

Nah... No news yet.

 

[diser]

Moreover, I don't think they can schedule listings - what's the point. They probably add them manually anyway.

 

[xestanz]

I'm sure they can. It wouldn't be hard at all to script something where it has a "Don't display until this date", and as big as newegg is (the database).
But then again, they could not add products till the morning or anything.

 

[Kwint Sommer]

Originally posted by: diser
Moreover, I don't think they can schedule listings - what's the point. They probably add them manually anyway.

Yes, I have sneaking suspicion that NewEgg and ZZF won?t update at midnight simply because no one will be at work. They may well wait until morning simply to make their lives easier and avoid paying overtime. We will see.

 

[Some1ne]

I would very highly doubt that the update process is a manual one...their database is too large and too complex for that to be even remotely practical. I'd say that they must have a way of scheduling things, though that doesn't necessarily mean that there are any Core 2 Duo updates scheduled.

 

[secretanchitman]

Originally posted by: rklaver

Originally posted by: secretanchitman
im going to be staying up for the "releases" tonight.

whos with me? rklaver, i know you cant sit this one out! haha...

Woooo!

Made it right in time... Hi Everybody!

You know I couldn't miss this one. 3rd times a charm right?

hahaha yesssss....about half an hour left. or maybe 1:30 because of the peeps over on PST.

 

[diser]

I don't see a relation between "can'd do manually" and "have to schedule because of that".
If they schedule showing an item, it means they already added this item, right?

Regarding addition of a new item to the DB: it's manual. I am sure for 99%. Do you see a lot of repeating sentences in all the IT stores? I don't. There is always something unique. There is always a different information in the details (more/less/mistakes/typos/etc). Always different photos (except the manufacturer-provided ones).

Regarding schedules: in order to implement something like this, there should be a separate filed for each item record in the database - after what datetime to show the item. This needed very rarely, so I don't think it is a good idea to have this field, and have one more DBfield/date check every single time the item shows on the web page.

And the last thing - they do not ship during midnight. So why bother with scheduler? Just to please several maniacs from AnandTech forum? I never saw this before, and I am pretty sure it will not happen today.

Though... I'd like to see something like this to happen