DVL-Digest 949 - Postings: Index DEFINITION OF "EXISTING?" do-it-yourself minubrute (was light package) Final Cut Pro on Ebay SDRAM Trivia from Hell (not that anyone's listening) DEFINITION OF "EXISTING?" - Adam Wilt I said: > ...I bought a PowerLogix CPU upgrade to hot up my PowerBook, > > and now I can buy any new Apple product from the Dogs... > And Steve shouted at SmallDogs, and they said: > > > WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF "EXISTING?" > > Customers that purchased from us when this contract was negotiated. > ... > > > Is it someone who bought prior to your contract with Apple? > > Yes. > > SO MUCH FOR THIS. What can I say? I bought an upgrade, and was sent an email welcoming me to the Top Dog Club. I can now enter the Top Dog portion of the site; I couldn't before. I can now add a new Apple product to my shopping cart; previously I could not. Not meaning to get Clintonian about the meaning of "existing", just relating my experience. Note that I haven't tried concluding a purchase of new Apple product from SmallDogs; there might be a blockout at that point. And there's no need to shout. Volume doesn't enhance veracity. Cheers, AJW do-it-yourself minubrute (was light package) - "Perry" From: Randy Quimpo By any chance, does anyone have information on how to build a do-it-yourself minibrute using photoflood lamps? I am thinking of putting together 6 500 watt Pars, and I could use some help as to the electrical details. FWIW to the original poster, I have also seen a Taiwan made light bank made out of halogen lamps (the type originally made for table lamps). It is small and light, and even has a neat fader - I am also hoping someone has an idea how to build one of these babies. Final Cut Pro on Ebay - "Perry" From: Danny Grizzle A friend of mind showed me tons of people selling "Factory sealed unregistered Final Cut Pro v2.0", with the going "Buy It Now" price of less than . What is going on here? I know this product doesn't have that kind of margin, so I have to wonder if these people are hawking black market educational licenses or stolen goods. I'd especially appreciate insight from Charles or any other authorized dealer. SDRAM Trivia from Hell (not that anyone's listening) - Adam Wilt Catagorize this under don't believe anything you read > and only half of what you hear. Well, I quite agree, as it turns out! :-) > We all know that PC133 memory will slow down to 100Mhz > when installed in a mobo with the slower bus. It's > "backward compatible" and "future proofed". Right? > Wrong!!! Er, right. All else being equal, that's true. > The tech support from Crucial basically wrote to me > that Registered PC133 SDRAM is incompatible with the > 440BX chipset on PC100 bus boards. Tech support is wrong. I just installed four 256MB PC133 Registered SDRAM DIMMS on my Supermicro P6DBE, which uses the venerable 440BX chipset and has a 100 MHz bus. Now, I previously had two 512MB PC100 Registered SDRAM DIMMS that were only halfway recognized: as 256MB DIMMS. My supplier promptly swapped them out for the faster parts (though success was probably due to twice as many at half the size, not the speed change). I started out with a pair of 128 MB Registered DIMMs but was unable to recognize a 256 MB PC100 Registered DIMM a colleague offered to me some months ago, even though it ran fine on his 440BX-based iWill mobo. Conversely, one of the 128s from my system wouldn't work in his, despite having (apparently) identical specs w.r.t. speed, organization, SPD, CAS latency, etc. The morals of the story? Even the big names get it wrong sometimes; it isn't always the major-brand memory that works the best (the dysfunctional DIMMs in my system were Infineons, the working sticks are generic); motherboards differ; and always buy RAM from suppliers with a money-back or even-swap guarantee, because you may well need to use it, through no fault of yours or theirs. Oh, and yeah: don't believe everything you see on the 'net! :-) Cheers, Adam Wilt (diese posts stammen von der DV-L Mailingliste - THX to Adam Wilt and Perry Mitchell :-) [up] |
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