Yeah he almost sounds like he looked at prices a year ago. To add to your list, around the pre-BF sales I picked up an Intel 330 240GB for $140. It almost feels like we'll be seeing $0.10/GB or lower in a couple of years; I can't wait.

The point of it is the prices are dropping in the double digits. I picked up a 240GB SSD for $140. That's $0.583/GB and it was an Intel SSD with no rebate nonsense! Granted that's no $0.033/GB for the 3TB HDD ($100) I picked up at the same time, but it's a stark difference to the >$1/GB that was last year.

Personally I'm looking forward to the prices to keep dropping and the density to increase.

I have a few Model M keyboards from 1984 that I still use (banging away on one right now). All of them are older than my wife. The nice thing about the earlier Model Ms is one can change out the cord for PS/2. I still get asked if I'm using an adapter for this tank, but I just point to the one cord going to the docking station without any adapters.HP has yet to drop them from the docking stations for the Elitebooks and Probooks.

Which IP KVMs are you referring to? The cheap ones I'm finding still require a dedicated KVM switch or proprietary software to be licensed. I'm looking for one that's browser based and hopefully can remotely mount an ISO and do the keyboard power button command. $200+ for the ones I'm finding isn't worth the cost to me for a home server. There's an optional remote management card for my server, but the web interface sucks and it uses up a whole expansion card slot when there's only two slots total.

The customer should be informed that they need to provide a support number. If the customer assumes that because they paid some contractor to install it and they are entitled to support, they should be refereed back to the contractor or person that installed it. Any IT contractor worth their salt should have a Statement Of Work that outlines exactly what services are being provided at what cost signed by both parties so there are no questions.

Subby needs to put something clear next to the support number that the customer needs their support contract number ready for the support line, support is pay only, and a link to where they can get a support contract with preferably a schedule of pricing (eg. one time case cost, five cases, flat month to month, flat annual). Anybody that screams at me about not getting free support is a candidate for my block list.

At my last job we encountered too many links to scammers and malware from sites on their subdomains via spam and customer applications. We went ahead and blocked *.co.cc and would not approve any potential customer applications if that's where their website was.

If a company wants to do a website on the cheap, domains don't cost much and hosting can be had for $5/mo to free depending on your content.

Yes. Working on your people skills will help a bunch. The key thing to remember is that not everyone is adept at programming and one's natural skills can play in favor or against them in learning something. I am a firm believer that anyone can learn to do anything; how much effort they're willing to put into learning will determine how well they succeed.

I have high spacial reasoning with a partial photographic memory that makes me adept at being a Systems Engineer and have the capability to be successful in a number of other non-IT trades if I chose to. That being said, I have my deficiencies. Take for example, art and drawing. It took me a while as a 10yo to learn to draw a cube. My best drawings outside of that are stick figures. My spacial reasoning helps in things like an algebra formula and computer hardware, but it doesn't help me draw a 3D object from a single perspective onto a 2D piece of paper. Could I learn to do it? Sure. Could I become great at it? Possibly with enough learning and practice.

Everyone, including us nerds, need to remember that we're not awesome at everything and there are things we just aren't adept at. Don't get on that high horse just because one is better at something than the other. Understand that other people aren't going to understand something that one understands, but they probably have the capability to understand it if they're willing to learn and it can be taught to them in a way that they will understand.

Everyone also needs to understand that there are different learning styles as well. I am a tactile learner; I learn by doing. I am not a visual learner so If someone is showing me how to do something, I will pick up 10%-80% of what they showed me depending on the subject material and how focused I am. I am even worse at auditory learning as an example.

Have a good attitude, understand that one is not better than anyone else, one has a skill they trained in and someone else's skills and training may be different, and don't be a pushover and one can go pretty far.

Process it as a credit instead. Sure the merchant has to pay a higher transaction fee, but the card holder has all the power. The card issuing bank must honor any chargeback requests from the card holder and it is on the merchant to prove that the transaction is legit.

Opting out doesn't mean anything to me. Ok so I opt-out of them selling my information; unless I missed it, nothing on that opt-out page said anything about stopping all of their data collection. What guarantee do I have that they're not going to sell my information anyways? So I move a few radio buttons around and they stay there when I refresh the page; what stops them from distributing that information anyways? They don't have any ethics to begin with. They'll happily change someone's plan mid-contract and tell them too-bad.

Have you seen their new plans? That's an ass-raping right there and their Q3 profits are up as a result.

I'll repeat a quote I heard in regards to when we get a new President: "Same bullshit; different asshole".

Or did they just have a crappy route to their test server? If I could make a living in Chattanooga TN and the wife be ok with it, I'd move in a heartbeat. The local city owned electrical company has HTTP on the cheap. Their base service is faster (50mbps symetrical) and cheaper than my base service with Comcrap: https://epbfi.com/enroll/packages/#/

Seriously wish that could happen where I live, but it will never happen. Sad thing is, the available ISPs and speeds are a factor in my choice of domicile. My wife rolls her eyes at that statement, yet she bitches when the internets are slow or don't work; go figure. I've got her on the same page now that we're on Comcrap and shit breaks on occasion. Who said it was impossible to get the wife on your side? I just use logic, point stuff out, and she'll come over to my side on things we disagree on in most cases. I just haven't gotten her on my side when it comes to guns yet, but I haven't made the effort to shoot down her lame arguments with facts yet; no pun intended.

Don't forget that he bought an Acer and is expecting to get some longevity out of it.

I took that as he interfaces directly with the Central Processing Unit or he stays on top of what his CPU does and does not do.

I took my time looking for a new job a couple of years and ended up expanding my search outside of Atlanta. When I found out about the EPB's internet services, I really tried to find a job over there. The IT market over there is quite small and I could only find two jobs that could utilize my skill set. I got a really good offer in Atlanta, but I wish the rest of the country had this level of service.