Comments on: Server outages due to office re-org http://www.kgadams.net/2008/03/10/server-outages-due-to-office-re-org Technology, computer games, MMOGs, science...and other nerdy stuff Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:17:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Kelly Adams http://www.kgadams.net/2008/03/10/server-outages-due-to-office-re-org#comment-17315 Kelly Adams Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:06:48 +0000 http://www.kgadams.net/2008/03/10/server-outages-due-to-office-re-org#comment-17315 Shane, might you be referring to <a href="http://www.kgadams.net/wpg2?g2_itemId=11486" rel="nofollow">this</a>? Yes, not one of my better moments, I'll admit. I'll refrain from mentioning the extra wall you decided needed removing...oops :) Mistakes were made, but it was work well done regardless. Although that room is now a {shudder} gym rather than a billiards room. To reduce the likelihood of any broken windows, I decided to rent a cargo van this time. I'll be picking it up in a couple of hours, and then relegating my cast-off computer equipment to history... Shane, might you be referring to this? Yes, not one of my better moments, I’ll admit. I’ll refrain from mentioning the extra wall you decided needed removing…oops :) Mistakes were made, but it was work well done regardless. Although that room is now a {shudder} gym rather than a billiards room.

To reduce the likelihood of any broken windows, I decided to rent a cargo van this time. I’ll be picking it up in a couple of hours, and then relegating my cast-off computer equipment to history…

]]> By: Chris http://www.kgadams.net/2008/03/10/server-outages-due-to-office-re-org#comment-17298 Chris Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:33:15 +0000 http://www.kgadams.net/2008/03/10/server-outages-due-to-office-re-org#comment-17298 I'd go with "feeling sorry" as well. I have no desire to be as far out on the bleeding edge as you are, but I wouldn't be tail end charlie of the upgrade cycle either if I had the choice. I'm just fortunate that the hardware turnover rate has slowed down enough that a 6 year old computer can still function well, and I can still use the same software without having to buy new. I guess I should be thankful that Vista had a "less than optimal" release ;) I’d go with “feeling sorry” as well.

I have no desire to be as far out on the bleeding edge as you are, but I wouldn’t be tail end charlie of the upgrade cycle either if I had the choice.

I’m just fortunate that the hardware turnover rate has slowed down enough that a 6 year old computer can still function well, and I can still use the same software without having to buy new.

I guess I should be thankful that Vista had a “less than optimal” release ;)

]]> By: Shane http://www.kgadams.net/2008/03/10/server-outages-due-to-office-re-org#comment-17296 Shane Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:08:04 +0000 http://www.kgadams.net/2008/03/10/server-outages-due-to-office-re-org#comment-17296 Be careful while loading the back of the truck, try not to throw anything into the cab :) Be careful while loading the back of the truck, try not to throw anything into the cab :)

]]> By: Kelly Adams http://www.kgadams.net/2008/03/10/server-outages-due-to-office-re-org#comment-17290 Kelly Adams Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:22:20 +0000 http://www.kgadams.net/2008/03/10/server-outages-due-to-office-re-org#comment-17290 I don't know whether to admire you or feel sorry for you... nope, I'd have to go with "feeling sorry for" :) Kidding, but my computers get a lot of use, I'd suspect more than yours do. So a five or six year old computer in my house (one of the machines going to the recycle place is 8 years old, one of the monitors is 12...) is really getting kind of tired. Another way to think of it... I believe I once read that the third largest airforce in the world was the American "mothball" fleet. The American military's need to have the latest and greatest means that they are continuously removing incredibly advanced aircraft from service. Other countries are often almost able to save up enough to buy whatever it is the American's removed from service as "out of date" a few years ago. My computer situation is kind of like that :) I don’t know whether to admire you or feel sorry for you… nope, I’d have to go with “feeling sorry for” :)

Kidding, but my computers get a lot of use, I’d suspect more than yours do. So a five or six year old computer in my house (one of the machines going to the recycle place is 8 years old, one of the monitors is 12…) is really getting kind of tired.

Another way to think of it… I believe I once read that the third largest airforce in the world was the American “mothball” fleet. The American military’s need to have the latest and greatest means that they are continuously removing incredibly advanced aircraft from service. Other countries are often almost able to save up enough to buy whatever it is the American’s removed from service as “out of date” a few years ago. My computer situation is kind of like that :)

]]> By: Chris http://www.kgadams.net/2008/03/10/server-outages-due-to-office-re-org#comment-17273 Chris Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:11:56 +0000 http://www.kgadams.net/2008/03/10/server-outages-due-to-office-re-org#comment-17273 Mmmm... my Mum's Vista machine is a year old. Every other computer is 2002 / 2003 vintage ... laptop might be 2004. Still using a 1993 laser printer. Little slow but it works better than any other printer in the house. I think my entire network is about on equal footing with your obsolete junk ;) Mmmm… my Mum’s Vista machine is a year old. Every other computer is 2002 / 2003 vintage … laptop might be 2004. Still using a 1993 laser printer. Little slow but it works better than any other printer in the house.

I think my entire network is about on equal footing with your obsolete junk ;)

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