[lopsa-tech] iPhone 4s vs iPhone 5s

2013-04-03 Thread john boris
Okay here at $WORK they are going to iPhones. The default is to get the iPhone 4s 16gb. a 5s option is available but they are pushing the 4s because it is cheaper. For all the iPhone users on the list what are the big reason to push to get the iPhone 5s. TIA -- John J. Boris, Sr. Online Services

Re: [lopsa-tech] iPhone 4s vs iPhone 5s

2013-04-03 Thread Matt Lawrence
On Wed, 3 Apr 2013, john boris wrote: Okay here at $WORK they are going to iPhones. The default is to get the iPhone 4s 16gb. a 5s option is available but they are pushing the 4s because it is cheaper. For all the iPhone users on the list what are the big reason to push to get the iPhone 5s. i

Re: [lopsa-tech] iPhone 4s vs iPhone 5s

2013-04-03 Thread John Broome
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:56 PM, john boris wrote: > Okay here at $WORK they are going to iPhones. The default is to get the > iPhone 4s 16gb. a 5s option is available but they are pushing the 4s > because it is cheaper. For all the iPhone users on the list what are the > big reason to push to get

Re: [lopsa-tech] iPhone 4s vs iPhone 5s

2013-04-03 Thread Nathan Hruby
Since the iphone 5s hasn't been released yet. The major difference between the 4s and the 5 is the screen size, housing and dock connector. If any of these really ring your bell, go for the 5 now. That said, I have been doing the s -> s upgrade path for 3 phones now and have been quite happy

[lopsa-tech] High density servers

2013-04-03 Thread Matt Lawrence
This is a bit of a rant, so adjust your filters accordingly. I'm currently doing some work not really production datacenter (unless you ask the developers) that has a variety of systems. Some of the systems I'm dealing with are the 4 servers in 2U variety. It's a neat idea, but great care ne

Re: [lopsa-tech] High density servers

2013-04-03 Thread Adrian Luff
A few thoughts and observations from a longtime blade admin… Depending on the blade manufacturer you're talking about (sounds like HP) the likelihood of the passive enclosure backplane causing a failure is near zero. We have 4+ years of ~20,000 blades in c-class enclosures without a single inst

Re: [lopsa-tech] iPhone 4s vs iPhone 5s

2013-04-03 Thread Brian Mathis
Other than technical features that are of arguable value to a business (faster CPU, etc...), consider that the 5 series is far more durable than the 4. 4s are sandwiched between two exposed glass panels, either of which can and will break easily when dropped. The 5 series has glass only on the fr

Re: [lopsa-tech] High density servers

2013-04-03 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
On 04.03.2013 11:46, Matt Lawrence wrote: This is a bit of a rant, so adjust your filters accordingly. I'm currently doing some work not really production datacenter (unless you ask the developers) that has a variety of systems. Some of the systems I'm dealing with are the 4 servers in 2U varie

Re: [lopsa-tech] iPhone 4s vs iPhone 5s

2013-04-03 Thread Will Dennis
I dropped my 4S so many times (and also it rode around in my pocket caseless enough) that the back glass edges got very chipped (amazed I didn’t star-crack the back with some of the drops I’ve had!) and (the deal-killer) the clear glass over the camera got a big scratch on it (obv not Gorilla Gl

Re: [lopsa-tech] High density servers

2013-04-03 Thread Derek Balling
On Apr 3, 2013, at 3:34 PM, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote: > Last time I evaluated going with the high density chassis (both 4x1 and > blades), I found that unless I went into a brand new data center that > had enough power to light a city, I was limited to about 16 actual > servers per rack. ("act

[lopsa-tech] Using Rackwise

2013-04-03 Thread Matt Lawrence
In my current job I'm using Rackwise for tracking lab inventory. It was here when I arrived and so that's what I'm supposed to use. For those that haven't used it, the interface is through a Visio addon, which is handy for making small numbers of changes. It's also possible to export and imp

Re: [lopsa-tech] High density servers

2013-04-03 Thread bergman
In the message dated: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:46:03 -0500, The pithy ruminations from Matt Lawrence on <[lopsa-tech] High density servers> were: => This is a bit of a rant, so adjust your filters accordingly. => => I'm currently doing some work not really production datacenter (unless you => ask t

Re: [lopsa-tech] High density servers

2013-04-03 Thread Jeff Wasilko
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 12:19:04PM -0700, Adrian Luff wrote: > Depending on the blade manufacturer you're talking about (sounds like HP) the > likelihood of the passive enclosure backplane causing a failure is near zero. > We have 4+ years of ~20,000 blades in c-class enclosures without a single

Re: [lopsa-tech] High density servers

2013-04-03 Thread Andrew Hume
i am OCDish enough to fuss over cabling so i normally try to do my own. the one thing i did in this arena that people found remarkable (in the sense of making remarks, not necessarily earthshaking) was setting up a third vertical bar in the back of the rack. this really helped routing cables. (near

Re: [lopsa-tech] High density servers

2013-04-03 Thread Nicholas Tang
A few comments from my perspective... while I'm not a huge fan of the 4 systems in 2u boxes, a lot of them are more dense, power-wise, than 1u boxes (at least in my experience - ours used shared power supplies, which helped) and so that makes up for some of the frustration (but also means that if o

Re: [lopsa-tech] iPhone 4s vs iPhone 5s

2013-04-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "john" == john boris writes: john> Okay here at $WORK they are going to iPhones. The default is to get the john> iPhone 4s 16gb. a 5s option is available but they are pushing the 4s john> because it is cheaper. For all the iPhone users on the list what are the john> big reason to push to ge