Re: [gentoo-user] Prelink on a already fast system

[Mick]

On Thursday 17 February 2011 18:25:47 Dale wrote:
> Dale wrote:
> > Well, what got me once was the trip a package took.  I ordered
> > something, can't remember what it was now but anyway, it left Memphis,
> > went to Atlanta and sat there a day or two, then went to some place in
> > Kentucky and sat there for a day or two.  Then it went back to Memphis
> > where it sat for a couple days and then they dropped it off at the
> > post office to be delivered.  DHL was the one that did all the running
> > around the country.
> >
> > Needless to say, I wrote newegg a little note about all that.  They
> > refunded the shipping, which I wasn't worried about, and said she was
> > going to talk to the higher ups since they are getting a lot of
> > similar complaints.  I notice that their only options now are UPS and
> > such.  I don't see the so called "egg saver" anymore.
> >
> > That package took over a week for me to get.  As I explained in my
> > note to newegg, I could have rode a bicycle to Memphis, got the
> > package and rode the bike back faster than the shipping company could
> > get it here or even just get it back to Memphis to drop it off at the
> > post office.
> >
> > The funny part, once it was taken to the post office, I got it the
> > next day.  So much for snail mail.  They should have shipped it with
> > them to begin with.  lol
> >
> > At least we know now why they went belly up.  Let's not mention the
> > part from Sears that I had to drive 40 miles one way to get.  They
> > delivered it to some ladies house.  She found me in the phone book.  I
> > guess DHL doesn't have a phone book.  :-@  There is only two people
> > around here with my last name.  The other is my brother.  He knows
> > where I live too.  ;-)
> >
> > Dale
> >
> > :-)  :-)
>
> I have a correction here.  It appears "egg saver" is still alive.  It
> also appears that DHL is still alive as well.  I saw on the news where
> they closed down here in the USA but I guess it was just one of their
> big centers or something.  Anyway, my 8Gb kit is coming from California
> in route to Mississippi so this may take a while.  Given their record, I
> just hope it gets here at all.  o_O
>
> My 4Gb stick will be here tomorrow.  I also decided not to do the
> prelink thing.  Sounds like it would just be something else to keep up
> to date with little gain if any gain at all.

Since this is the gentoo-user mailing list I better explain that routing of 
parcels is performed so as to minimise journeys (hence fuel and driver costs) 
for the company, rather than minimise delivery time for the end customer.  
Usually they may delay a journey to make sure that the lorries always run full 
of goods back and forth.  Service level agreements may mean that they will on 
occasion run less full than they would like to so as to not exceed maximum 
delivery timescales.

I am led to believe that this is the case even when the goods are to be used 
on a PC running Gentoo Linux ...   ;-)
-- 
Regards,
Mick