R5 Reporting...

[Starcrossed]

There does not appear to be a link available yet but Radio 5 have reported that the leading chain of pawnbrokers have reported record profits - up about 13%.

It was explained by the presenter that pawnbrokers are often a bell-weather of change in the economy...

Edited September 19, 2005 by Starcrossed

[wokinghamman]

There does not appear to be a link available yet but Radio 5 have reported that the leading chain of pawnbrokers have reported record profits - up about 13%.

It was explained by the presenter that pawnbrokers are often a bell-weather of change in the economy...

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There customers are always poor! And the company in question has delivered double digit growth for the last 5 years

[FreeFall]

NEWSFLASH: POOR PEOPLE ARE STILL POOR

Actually, may well be an overall indicator of whats been happening over the last few years....more and more people are gradually becoming cash poor.

[Starcrossed]

I see this as a function of debt.

[oracle]

worth keeping an eye on typical pieces of tat on ebay too.

take a typical plasma screen......what's the final bid price and how many bids?

that'll give you a good indication of whether people are in financial problems as well.

[BuyingBear]

worth keeping an eye on typical pieces of tat on ebay too.

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Computer stuff is cheap, a nice Sun dual UltraSparc II rackmount server with dual PSU, dual SCSI, and 2Gig of RAM with Solaris 10 went for £149 Yesterday.

[Dicky]

Computer stuff is cheap, a nice Sun dual UltraSparc II rackmount server with dual PSU, dual SCSI, and 2Gig of RAM with Solaris 10 went for £149 Yesterday.

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Where was this then, at the imaginary computer store in your head, 2GB of RAM is about £100 secondhand alone.

[OzzMosiz]

Computer stuff is cheap, a nice Sun dual UltraSparc II rackmount server with dual PSU, dual SCSI, and 2Gig of RAM with Solaris 10 went for £149 Yesterday.

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Wonder what the IPX, Classics, Ultra 5's and 10's go for

[OzzMosiz]

Where was this then, at the imaginary computer store in your head, 2GB of RAM is about £100 secondhand alone.

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I'd be surprised to see too many people going for Sun Sparcs! A lot of companies are now moving to Linux. I believe even Sun are moving in this direction (as well as continuing Solaris)

[200p]

Halifax is having a SALE on loans!! Saw the signs up in the window and bill boards outside their branch today.

Wow; cant see the people queuing up for it though

[BuyingBear]

Where was this then, at the imaginary computer store in your head, 2GB of RAM is about £100 secondhand alone.

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Do a search for UltraSparc on eBay completed items, loads of Sun units went for £150-200 yesterday.

Here's one.

Btw, it seems you're a little ignorant about memory prices for these boxen.

Edited September 19, 2005 by BuyingBear

[Dicky]

I'd be surprised to see too many people going for Sun Sparcs! A lot of companies are now moving to Linux. I believe even Sun are moving in this direction (as well as continuing Solaris)

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Blades running Linux Redhat Enterprise is the dogs danglies, totally agree.

[BuyingBear]

I'd be surprised to see too many people going for Sun Sparcs! A lot of companies are now moving to Linux. I believe even Sun are moving in this direction (as well as continuing Solaris)

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Indeed, all their lower end machines and workstations are now Opteron x86-64.

[roblpm]

Can we ban IT hardware chat?? I come here to get away from it!!

[BuyingBear]

Can we ban IT hardware chat?? I come here to get away from it!!

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[Dicky]

Can we ban IT hardware chat?? I come here to get away from it!!

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Can someone help me, where does the read fifo sit.

[roblpm]

depends which read fifo you are talking about, could be more than one

[Dicky]

depends which read fifo you are talking about, could be more than one

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Found it, its in the DMA controller, I hadn't configured the memory pointer or loop size. Yes you're right the periperials and instruction decoder can bother have fifo, but the later one is usually refered to as a pipline rather than a fifo.

Edited September 19, 2005 by Dicky

[Starcrossed]

Found it, its in the DMA controller, I hadn't configured the memory pointer or loop size. Yes you're right the periperials and instruction decoder can bother have fifo, but the later one is usually refered to as a pipline rather than a fifo.

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Reading this thread I feel dumb.

[Smell the Fear]

Reading this thread I feel dumb.

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Why? You should feel smart because you didn't choose IT as a profession. Outsourcing, anyone?