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Wendy's Effect

Slashdot | Forget Expensive Video Cards: "Re:Whatever...(Score:5, Insightful)
by X43B (577258) on Sunday April 30, @10:26AM (#15231771)
(http://agentbuckwald.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday January 12, @12:30AM)
'I'm sure the $500 GFX cards only exist to make spending $300 on a single component of a computer seem reasonable.'

I'm sure you are probably joking but I think you nailed it on the head. Having a super expensive card, even if it is a low seller, has many positive benefits.

1) You will sell some to those who want to be ub3r133t
2) You get the publicity of being 'the best' even if no one actually buys the best
3) Perhaps most importantly, the 'Wendy's Effect'. It is oft quoted that no one buys Wendy's triple cheeseburger. Someone at Wendy's decided that offering it was a waste so they removed it. However, this almost immediately reduced the number of double cheeseburgers sold. Apparently when people see that there is something more expensive and more 'over the top' they are much more compelled to buy the next lower version than if that same version was the high end."

Slashdot | McNealy Created Millions of Jobs?:

Family Guy Quote(Score:5, Insightful)
by zaguar (881743) on Saturday April 29, @10:52AM (#15227839)
(http://tulloch.wordpress.com/)
...is Schwartz right in giving credit to McNealy for creating 'millions' of jobs? Or has Sun been a company on the decline since the mid-1990s, only temporarily buoyed by the Internet bubble?
What was that Family Guy quote? Didn't it go like this:

Lawyer: So, Mr Griffin, is Brian Griffin a sex-crazed dog or an irresponsible alchoholic?
Peter: Ah,ah...
Lawyer: Drunken lunatic or terrible father?

The world is not black and white. These choices on /. are annoying. Sun is a good company, not a great one, but giving an either/or question with disconnected answers is fallacious.

Slashdot | McNealy Created Millions of Jobs?: "Ask Slashdot !(Score:5, Insightful)
by alexhs (877055) on Saturday April 29, @10:03AM (#15227622)
(http://dr-tools.sourceforge.net/)
So, what do you think: is Schwartz right in giving credit to McNealy for creating 'millions' of jobs? Or has Sun been a company on the decline since the mid-1990s, only temporarily buoyed by the Internet bubble?

Neither ?

These black & white choices are annoying >_<"

Slashdot | McNealy Created Millions of Jobs?:

they have lost control(Score:5, Insightful)
by penguin-collective (932038) on Saturday April 29, @04:59PM (#15229349)
Well, and what actually happened with the strategy Sun adopted? Sun lost control to "Microsoft bastardization"--.NET is essentially an incompatible Java, completely with Java backwards compatibility.

If Sun had turned Java into an open standard, every Linux system would be using Java now, for both desktop and server apps, many of Java's technical bugs would be fixed, and C# would have ended up like VisualBasic. Instead, Sun's move allowed Microsoft to take the high ground and make C# an open standard. The open source community has created multiple C# implementations and gone to work innovating and improving the platform, as well as integrating it with the Linux desktop. As a result, some really nifty Linux desktop apps are being written in C#. And, as a bonus, there are also open source .NET implementations, giving developers easy cross-platform capabilities between Windows and Linux should they desire that.

BTW, this is a repeat of the NeWS disaster; that, too, was a nice core idea, the design had some serious flaws, the implementation was mediocre at best, and ultimately the industry rejected it because Sun was waffling on whether to open it or not. Sun apparently doesn't learn from their mistakes.

SP4 error running replsys.sql:


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SP4 error running replsys.sql
From: Unknown User
Date Posted: 7/25/2005 12:50:00 AM



Has anyone figured out why some SQL Server 2000 installations receive
the error "Error running script: replsys.sql(1)" when trying to run the
Service Pack 4 install program?

The error message in the replsys.out file is identical:
[DBNETLIB]General network error. Check your network documentation.
[DBNETLIB]ConnectionRead (recv()).


I have disconnected everything/everyone that could attach to the SQL
Server. I have checked my network packet size and found nothing wrong
with it (these were other suggestions that I have seen for this
problem).

I have SQL 2000 Ent. Ed. with SP 3a running on Windows 2003 Ent. Ed. SP
1 and all Windows Updates that are currently available. I am running on
dual Xeon 3 GHz processors and 8 GB of physical RAM. I do not have
replication running (although I am in the process of setting it up).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Curt Mader (a friend in need...)




Re: SP4 error running replsys.sql
From: Unknown User
Date Posted: 8/7/2005 12:35:00 AM



I will reply to my own message and tell you how my issue was resolved
(with the help of a Microsoft Phone Support person in India and to the
detriment of my wallet to the tune of $245). Hopefully this will help
any other who are having this same problem...

Here's the short version:

I had switched the account that SQL Server uses to start and I did this
through the Services MMC. This caused the SQL Server to not listen
properly on LPC(shared memory). Apparently replsys.sql uses this
protocol to communicate with the SQL Server.

1) In the registry, made a backup copy of the LPC key under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\MSSQLserver\SuperSocketNetLib

2) Then delete the LPC key under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\MSSQLserver\SuperSocketNetLib
(Disclaimer: I make no guarantees to anyone who messes with the
registry)

3) Using the Services MMC I set the SQL Server startup account back to
the Local System account and restarted the SQL Server instance.

4) Changed the SQL start up account to domain account using the SQL
Enterprise Manager and again restarted that instance of SQL Server.

Ta-da! The SP4 installation worked!

Here are some other MS KB links that the tech support guy sent to me:

Potential causes of the "SQL Server does not exist or access denied"
error message http://support.microsoft.com/?id=328306

How to troubleshoot the "Cannot generate SSPI context" error message
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811889

How to troubleshoot connectivity issues in SQL Server 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;827422

HOW TO: Transfer Logins and Passwords Between Instances of SQL Server
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;246133

-Curt Mader (I got by with a little help from my friends (at Microsoft
tech Support))...