Don't let Siemens near your solar array

I'm not sure if this is the right address to send info to but its the 1st 1 i found that didn't relate to advertising.

I don't know if this would be classed as "insider information" but i work for DSGi (Dixons group) which is one of the biggest Apple retailers in the UK, and over the last couple of weeks i have noticed that some of our apple lines have been running very low over the entire country. This usually precedes the low running lines being replaced as happened with the iMacs a couple of weeks ago.

2 lines that have been running low recently are higher capacity iPods and Mac Minis. From what i have gathered everyone is expecting the new iPods to be released in the next couple of days, but i haven't heard/read much being mentioned about the lower end of the Mac desktop range.

Nanos aren't running too low but we haven't had as many in as we usually do and shuffles are still in stock.

Keep up the good work with the site, read it every day.

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Keep Siemens out of the loop

Well, you guy are finally writing about something interesting besides the INTC, NVDA, AMD, ATI mega cluster f**k. Cool!

DON'T LET ANYONE NEAR YOUR INVERTER, SOLAR ARRAY SETUP! It's doing exactly what it was designed to do! The SOB's aren't making enough money; ‘so let's change the meter'!?!

Tell ‘em the only way their gonna get that meter back is when they pry out of your cold dead fingers, and the only thing that's gonna beat ‘em to the hospital is the head lights of the ambulance their in!

You see here's the deal. What your cute little graph shows is ‘demand'. Utilities LOVE demand. Demand is an agreed amount of usage, if you go over demand, they slam it home, big time, no Vaseline. I don't know the size of your operation, (probably an old WWII underground bunker) but here in the Big Apple, we got some big stuff here. Starting ONE chiller during peak hours (cold start, no drive, no ramp), a 2 second surge, could throw the entire BUILDINGS monthly bill over demand! That's $50,000 to $100,000 penalty depending on the size of the service, slick heh? Well, we ain't got enough roof area here for solar panels, but we do have enough roof for FUEL CELLS, Boo Yaa! Not only do these things protect ‘demand', they sell the excess power (during off peak) back to the utility! Cha Ching!

What the point? Fella's, if that graph of yours is accurate, if you put in a few more panels, you to could be producing power for the grid, (going positive) That's right, selling power back to the utilities, just like the big boys. (We talking averages here, it only gets cheaper) I know, London Fog and all that, but that's why in the UK you need more panels, to compensate. After all, you ain't in Arizona, baby.

The bottom line here, from what I can see, your service is doing just fine. Tell ‘em to keep their goddamned fingers off it!

SPARKS

Seriously, now.

I know Siemens is trying to install these new "intelligent" IP-based power meters (no shit), throughout Europe. This means no more sending 'round the chappie to read the meter. That would save a cool billion pounds a year just on personnel for EON (not to mention all the other power companies across europe).

this is just an educated guess. They've been talking about these smart power meters for a while now...

Paul T

Entire city of Vista users cannot access the internet

In your article it states "Lund is a Linux city which has a a Linux server that doesn't like Vista." This is in fact an incorrect account of the situation.

The city of Lund runs it's digital infrastructure on Linux. The problem isn't the City's server that doesn't like vista, but vista not liking Linux.

This is part of a bigger problem considering that a majority of web servers are running Apache on a Linux operating system.

Kris C

Overcrockers

Poor ol Ed over at Overclockers is pi***d he has such a bad relationship with AMD.

After reading his last 10 articles and finding all of them anti-AMD I figured he is probably correct.

No AMD Christmas card for Ed.

Cheer up Ed ...

Dunno what this one relates to

Over here at the Inq we are laughing with you ... not at you ... or the converse maybe true ... I get confused.

You remind us of that Pervasive 64 bit guy Sood was talking about the other day ... just the opposite end of the spectrum.

Exremists ... always good for a giggle.

Darren

A different kind of Vista

I thought you meant this one from the headline. Of course, only those of us who live in San Diego County know about our city of Vista. And to my knowledge, they can still access the Internet. Although most residents of that city aren't quite in the economic bracket to be purchasing that particular OS anyway...

maps.google.com/maps?q=Vista,+CA,+United+States+of+America&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title

Creatives

Thought you guys might be interested in how creative driver developers let off steam.

Just scroll down this page towards the end......

http://connect.creativelabs.com/beta/Lists/Driver%20Issues/AllItems.aspx

Poor users can't even order a good book to read while waiting for Vista to transfer data from local network or internet...

"Viewing Toronto Public Library websites on computers running Windows Vista"

Some customers have reported problems accessing Toronto Public Library websites on computers running Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. The Library is currently investigating the problems.

Information on Microsoft's website may be of assistance to some users.

http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/hel_index.jsp

regards, Geof

Vista

It would be nice to have a little more detail, such as what was actually going wrong. I cannot imagine that having a linux box (or several) would break the windows boxen.

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