The case of the missing servers

Posted by Ian Holsman Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:02:00 GMT

Compare the initial annoucnement and the recently announced rules just posted.

The Niagara team will make the decisions, and it’s in their sole discretion, but we’ve yet to place a limit on the number of systems we’ll give away

vs.

The judging panel will choose up to one (1) winner per Entry Period based on the highest scoring submission.

I guess they figured out what the limit will be. 1 per month. so I’m waiting until next month now..

Colm’s benchmark is too good to bother even opening up the box for (and I think he deserves it as well)

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I wished I lived next to a Fry's right now

Posted by Ian Holsman Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:05:00 GMT

That is my sunfire. right now I am too busy to open it, and even if I did open it, it would be as useful as a door stop as I am missing a $15 cable (which I found out about thanks to this post on sunfire fanatics ).

I’m kinda pissed, as when I ordered the cable, the guy said it would take 3 days… when I called him again today it went up to ‘8’ (from today). Of course the cisco cable was a custom job, and I don’t feel right cancelling on him and just ordering for someone else.

now the bigger problem.

where do I put this thing? :-) and should I do it before my wife asks me how much this thing cost?

initial reaction: it’s light, and sun’s has a good supply chain.. when they make a promise (of delivering it) they keep it.

but this time isn’t wasted.. I’ve figured out what I am going to benchmark (my forum app) and I can do the x86-64 version now.

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