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training courses??? hahahahahahahahahahaa
Oh, sorry, if I didn't laugh, I would cry.
Marc
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Where do I sign up for these training courses?
Dave Goodman on funny error messages:
It is a definite no-no to run BITMAP as a user command. Your nose will grow, your lawn will die, your hair will fall out, and your first-born will marry an aardvark. Shame on you!
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Davy Mitchell wrote:
Why is it they will spend thousands on training courses but £300 to update your PC is a no no ??
Ah, I think you must be working for a training company, are you Davy?
Gavin Greig
"Haw, you're no deid," girned Charon. "Get aff ma boat or ah'll report ye."
Matthew Fitt - The Hoose O Haivers: The Twelve Trauchles O Heracles.
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Yeah, looks like most of us has outdated systems. So why boss should upgrade my comouter if other programmers use the same? (0.5GHz - 1 GHz)
Philip Patrick
Web-site: www.stpworks.com
"Two beer or not two beer?" Shakesbeer
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Yeah, definately. Otherwise he might take my dual 2.4 away...
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I am pretty happy with my 850 MHz PIII Notebook (which is my main working machine) and my 2 * 650 MHz PIII tower for background tasks (like encoding MP3s )
I personally have the feeling, that speed, speed, speed is no longer the question. All machines with >= 500 MHz are fast enough for most things - if you give them enough memory and a speedy HD.
(Okay, for VS.NET and Java it may be helpfull to have 1GHz, but memory and a fast HD is still more imporant than CPU speed.)
In the last years my focus moved to other aspects. For example I prefer silent machines over fast ones. That's the reason I work mainly on my notebook even if the tower is faster. It's very silent, the fan runs only if I really stress it and the HD is nearly unhearable.
The one and only bottleneck is the HD. 2,5" HDs are significantly slower than desktop HDs. So my personal whish is a speedy, but silent 2,5" HD.
--
Daniel Lohmann
http://www.losoft.de
(Hey, this page is worth looking! You can find some free and handy NT tools there )
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But still Megahertzes are good...
Greets,
Martin
If I'm not back in 5 minutes, just wait longer.
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Compile time is greatly affected by the CPU speed. If you do a lot of compiling, a faster computer can save a good chunk of time.
John
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You are right here, of course
However, the important part of your statement is "fast computer" which is not necessarily the same as "fast CPU".
Especially when it comes to compiling, the speed of the HD is also a significant thing.
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Daniel Lohmann
http://www.losoft.de
(Hey, this page is worth looking! You can find some free and handy NT tools there )
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And the amount of memory for file cache.
Tim Smith
"Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we can not avoid it... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs, is also complicated, the language itself becomes part of the problem rather that part of the solution."
Hoare - 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture
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I always remember my first computer --only 100MHz ---when I began to act as a programer.I told my boss that I can do better if I get a much sharper sword.
But he told me a 486 is enough.So I always did one thing:waiting the computer to finish compiling.
Now I have a new computer --XP 1600+. I finish my most digital image process work on it.
I wander where my first computer is now.
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it's important for games
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I have started a small shop where I do some consultant/programming stuff for different compagnies, so I buy my own work computers
Currently my primary workstation is a dual AMD 1800+, and my laptop is a P4 1.7Ghz
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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With a P3 1133 I don't feel too lucky/unlucky, but my delight when I was given 512 Ram was hard to hide
The following statement about your geekness is true. The previous statement about your geekness is false.
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I think it'd time CP started supplying us with branded boxes.
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining.
Said by Roger Wright about me.
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That would actually be pretty cool, come to think of it.
"Time spent with cats is never wasted." - Colette
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Or those cool hyperthreading zeons?
Shog9
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And on the pedestal, these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains.
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I need that option too
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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Shog9 wrote:
No option for dual processors?
must be nice...
Nitron
_________________________________________--
message sent on 100% recycled electrons.
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Nitron wrote:
must be nice...
There are a number of ways i could take that i guess...
? Oh, my god must be nice...
? OMG, not having an option for dual processors must be nice...
? OMG, being able to complain about not having an option for dual processors must be nice...
Shog9
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And on the pedestal, these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains.
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Shut UP! If you need an option for dual you need to be shot. Ok so I am extremely jealus. I program from home. I need to get with a fat company with some money to spend.
Darroll
Not one person lives in the present. Only the past. I can prove it.
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Darroll wrote:
I need to get with a fat company with some money to spend.
That's the way to do it
I've gotta say, back in the Pentium Pro days, i knew a guy who had a dual machine. Running VMWare in NT, with Linux just three keypresses away. I was sooo envious, but since most of my upgrades were motivated by games i wanted to play, i opted to shell out for better video cards instead. I still don't think i'd buy one for home use; if i was gonna spend the $$$ i'd prolly opt for a bigger monitor instead
Shog9
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And on the pedestal, these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains.
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I was working on a 8-way P3 733 Xeon 4gb memory.
Granted, it wasn't pysically next to me, but I was the only one using it.
hmmm, SETI@HOME, 40+ units a day...
Bruce Duncan, CP#9088, CPUA 0xA1EE, Sonork 100.10030 I can levitate birds...
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:drool: !
Shog9
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And on the pedestal, these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains.
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