This crazy fool does a 125 foot back flip over the Ceasers Palace fountains. Evel Knievel did the same trick (without the flip), and ended up breaking about 100 bones in his body, and put him in a coma for 29 days.
Monthly Archives: May 2006
Star Lords
Someone has *way* too much time on their hands. Not just a little time… WAAAYYY too much time. Watch the whole thing. 🙂
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More Dell Pricing Craziness
What in the hell dude???
Now we are back to the $66,030 pricing for the 10 blades. This is $30,000 cheaper than the pricing yesterday. 🙂
Random Email #16
Another random email I got today (in it’s entirety)…
please let me how can i hack a yahoo id?
Do I look like “Grand Master Hacker Shawn” or something? Why don’t you call Yahoo and ask them how to hack their whole site… then you can access all the Yahoo IDs you want.
Learn To Play Guitar
This guy seems to be coming along fairly well with his “Guitar For Dummies” book. 🙂
Getting Around Dell’s Whacky Pricing
As I mentioned previously, I’m looking to get a bunch of Dell blade servers, but their pricing system (seemingly random pricing changes every day) is really irritating me. So I think I may have come up with a solution… Just buy stripped down blades and add the RAM, hard drives (and maybe even 2nd CPU) yourself.
As of right now, a single loaded blade configured as I would want it is $9,062 (that’s 2 dual core CPUs, 12GB RAM, 2 146GB 1k rpm drives, 3 gigabit ethernet ports, SuSE Linux Enterprise 9, etc.)
But if I strip the CPU, RAM and hard drives down to a minimum (1 dual core CPU, 1GB RAM, 1 36GB 15k rpm drive), the cost is $3,025.
Dell doesn’t offer 4GB DIMM modules, but they do say the blades support them. It’s actually cheaper to use 4GB DIMMs instead of 2GB DIMMs because you can use double ranked for the 4GB vs. single rank for the 2GB. This also means by using 4GB DIMMs you can max out at 16GB of memory instead of 12GB. 4GB DDR2 DIMMs are $581 each.
146GB 15k rpm U320 SCSI drives are $275 each (would need to find out if Dell sells blank drive carriers since they are hot swappable.. if not, I found them on eBay for $8.95).
A 2nd processor is $935 (the user’s guide for the blades actually have instructions for replacing a CPU, so maybe you can add one yourself too).
So if we add it all together we could have an identically configured blade (except we would have 4GB MORE RAM) for $6,834 instead of Dell’s $9,062 price. Also, would probably just end up adding 8GB RAM for now (9GB total) which would bring the per blade cost down to $5,672.
Now if they would just use AMD Opteron processors instead of Intel Xeon…….. 🙂
104 Year Old Lady Takes 21st Husband
I bet the consummation of the marriage was a glorious and beautiful site to behold. 🙂
A 33-year-old man in northern Malaysia has married a 104 year-old woman, saying mutual respect and friendship had turned to love.
It was Muhamad Noor Che Musa’s first marriage and his wife’s 21st, according to reports in the country.
Muhamad, an ex-army serviceman, said he found peace and a sense of belonging after meeting Wook Kundor, whom he said he initially sympathised with because she was childless, old and alone, the report said.
“I am not after her money, as she is poor,” Muhamad reportedly said. “Before meeting Wook, I never stayed in one place for long.”
He said he hoped to help his new bride to master Roman script while she taught him Islamic religious knowledge.
The report did not say if any of Wook’s previous 20 husbands are still alive. Malaysian Muslim men are allowed by their religion to take up to four wives at a time, but reports of women who marry more than once are rare.
Tickets To Costa Rica
We are going to Costa Rica this August, so I bought 6 plane tickets today. Here’s something interesting… if you book 1-4 tickets, they were $439 (plus tax/fees), but if you book 5 or more at once, all the tickets were $702 (plus tax/fees).
So the tip of the day is… just buy two different blocks of tickets if you need to. Then they are all $439 (in my case). 🙂