<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 18/09/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a></b> <<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> From: Yan Seiner <<a href="mailto:yan@seiner.com">yan@seiner.com</a>><br>>>I agree... It astounds me that people continue to spend time on this.<br>>>SD right now costs about $0.08/day. (My math could be off by a bit, but
<br>>>it's close.) That's nothing. I'd say most of us wouldn't stop to pick<br>>>up 8 pennies in the street. Heck, most stores have a penny box where<br>>>people throw their pennies.<br>
><br>> Since you bring up numbers, let's have some fun with this.<br><br>It's gotta be WAF.<br><br>The average wife isn't going to relate the high power bill to the<br>rack of servers you have in your home office but dare to ask for
<br>60 bux to spend on a UPS and they get testy...</blockquote><div><br>That's not just WAF, it's been like that in every company I ever worked for. Getting authorization to spend from the capital budget seems to be like drawing blood but ongoing expenses[1] budgets usually dwarf them. Or put another way - if I wanted a new server I'd need to get it signed off by the Finance Director, for the fraction of the sum our local office manager spends on stationery every month.
<br><br>However, back to WAF, this is how my colleague managed to get his wife to agree to a media centre PC. He built it himself, bought the parts online and was careful to make sure no individual purchase was more than a cetain 'tipping point'
<br><br>[1]or whatever they really call it. <br></div><br></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Paul Mason