Advantages: Cheaper than a real pet Disadvantages: More annoying than a real pet
Firstly, I should perhaps point out that I haven't lost the plot... although some might say I never had it!!! Neither have I made a dire spelling mistake in my opinion title. Dah doo-ay is Furbish for big fun. Furbish, for those not familiar with the Furby craze, is the language spoken by Furbies and Furby Babies. (Not to be confused with gibberish, the language spoken by parents suffering Furby overload.)
So, what is a Furby? An electronic pet, of sorts. About 4 inches tall, Furby is a furry 'blob' with the ability to try the patience of a saint and push the sane right over the edge. The saving grace of this companion from hell? It runs on 4 AA batteries, that fortunately run out of power quite frequently. Now I've got the harassed parent grumble out of the way, let's start again.
Furbies, and the latest addition Furby Babies ...
wiggglypufff 04.01.2001 (28.12.2001)
· Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Furbies
The particular model my company own is an 8648-4AY It comes with:
1x Xeon 3.0GHz/800MHz (2MB L2 Cache), 1x 512MB PC2-3200 ECC DDR2 SDRAM RDIMM, No disks,1x Broadcom NetXtreme 5721 Gigabit Ethernet, 48x-20x IDE CD-ROM , 1x 530W Power Supply, SVGA (16MB) .
What we have as accessories are:
IBM ServeRAID-6M Ultra320 SCSI Controller( around £500)
3x146.8 GB 10 000 rpm Ultra320 SCSI hard drives( around £300 each) and a Remote Supervisor Adapter II card ( around £300 ).
Packaging and User manual:
The server comes with a very good package.User manual ( CD)and IBM Director software included. keyboard and mouse included.The user manual is very good and include details about connections,set up and enviromental set-up ( noise generated,heat and cooling requirement)
Set-up:
For our particular configuration , we had to create the disk ...