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  1. Re:Climate change is a security threat on CIA Teams Up With Scientists To Monitor Climate · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Actually... you're accusing CO2 of a crime. You need to prove it's guilty. It doesn't need to prove it's innocence; It just needs to discredit you.

  2. Obviously your manager sucks... on Saying No To Promotions Away From Tech? · · Score: 1

    I mean... you're probably not going to do a good job since you're not going to like, or maybe even understand, the role. If you're going from Technical to Managerial, it's not a promotion, it's a career change. Unfortunately, few people on either side of the fence realize this, and your boss was probably one of those people.

  3. What do you need? on How Do You Evaluate a Data Center? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What does your company _NEED_? How much bandwidth do you need? What kind of servers do you need? Are you looking for Co-Lo or Dedicated? If you're doing Co-Lo, how much power and space do you need? If you're doing dedicated, do you need managed or unmanaged? PCI compliance? HIPAA compliance? Do you want to pay for certain redundancies? Do you need an Uptime Institute Tier certified facility? I could go on and on. The one thing that you need consistently is good customer service. The rest depends on what you need. Full Disclosure: I work for one of the biggest privately held dedicated hosting companies on the planet.

  4. Re:All-green probably an urban legend on Computer Failure Causes Gridlock In MD County · · Score: 1

    Why not just switch the wires on the red light and the green light? Then they'll all be green or red at the same time.

  5. Re:Windows Upgrades on Some Users Say Win7 Wants To Remove iTunes, Google Toolbar · · Score: 1

    I went from Vista to Win7 RC1 and didn't have any problems. Every time I see a comment like this, I think to myself "Why don't I ever have these problems?" Well?

  6. Wireless on Affordably Aggregating ISP Connections? · · Score: 1

    Are you trying to bond all of your neighbor's WAPs together so you can aggregate their bandwidth? This could make bit torrenting an interesting thing.

  7. Dust on Student Designs Cardboard Computer Case · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Working in a large Data Center, we explicitly prohibit staff and customers from bringing cardboard onto the DC floor because of dust. Not only does cardboard have a habit of carrying dust from the outside, it's a huge contributor of dust as the cardboard breaks down. Hopefully they plan on treating the cardboard to mitigate this decomposition.

  8. Re:biotech rocks on Gene Therapy Cures Color-Blind Monkeys · · Score: 1

    You could eat some fungus for the same effect.

  9. Re:So in other words... on Network Adapter Keeps Talking While a PC Is Asleep · · Score: 1

    I only run an anti-virus once every six months or so... I still have never gotten a virus. Also, it's bad practice to update 'just because'. Period. 80% of outages come from a Change and much of it is unnecessary. Not saying you shouldn't apply important updates, but you shouldn't apply EVERYTHING just for the sake of it. (As a side note, people who brag about high uptime is equally retarded for the opposite reason... they're usually the one missing the important updates)

  10. Re:Vaporware on Chevy Volt Rated At 230 mpg In the City · · Score: 0, Troll

    Awesome! Does your company know you're stealing high carbon-output electricity from them?

  11. Re:How about some nice menus instead? on Preview the Office 2007 Ribbon-Like UI Floated For OpenOffice.Org · · Score: 1

    I concur with this statement. The Ribbon was an easy convert...

    Anyways, no matter the operating system or application, menus and ribbons are for amateurs, not people who know the fast way to get things done: Keyboard shortcuts.

  12. Re:Oh, Those Dumb Police Officers! on First Ever Criminal Arrest For Domain Name Theft · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You should see how many people die in their homes without a weapon at 2am.

  13. Re:Doing their part to reduce traffic! on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because being crushed between two cars is definitely safer than bouncing off of one in an angled impact. I'm going to need some numbers to back your 'Lane Splitting is unsafe' opinion. The fact is that many states are considering making lane splitting explicitly legal because it helps reduce congestion, pollution, and stress. Don't blame the inattentiveness of cagers on motorcyclists until you're more informed of the subject just because you're pissed off the motorcyclist will get home faster than you.

  14. Re:The mistake on What Would You Want In a Large-Scale Monitoring System? · · Score: 1

    I definately agree with this. I work for a hosting provider that has about 67,000 servers. We use a highly modified version of Nagios to monitor them(at customer request, so only a majority of the servers are being monitored, not all).

  15. Even worse is on Tennesee Man Charged In "Virtual Pornography" Case · · Score: 0, Redundant

    when someone whines about it.

  16. Basic List on Ideal, and Actual, IT Performance Metrics? · · Score: 1

    Customer Satisfaction
    Mean / Average Time to Response
    Mean / Average Time to Close
    Mean / Average Number of Updates to Ticket
    Servers per Headcount
    Ticket Responses per Headcount
    Ticket Closes per Headcount
    Process Failures
    Cost per Server


    All of these are meant to make you look for a problem and solve it whether it's a problem with a policy, process, procedure, or sometimes(but lastly considered) a staff member. Keep a continous process improvement attitude and make sure you include the front line people on your CPI team.

  17. Re:Magnetic Tunnel Effect on "Colossal Magnetic Effect" Could Lead To Another Breakthrough In Storage Tech · · Score: 1, Informative

    Your mother's tongue ring wasn't made of ferrous materials.

  18. Re:More importantly on How Google's High Speed Book Scanner De-Warps Pages · · Score: 1

    Now all my porn looks like a flat screen monitor...

  19. Re:Should be a followup, actually on Qt Opens Source Code Repositories · · Score: 1

    Android.

  20. Re:Confused notion of "rights" on EU Rejects Law To Cut Pirates Off From Their ISP · · Score: 0, Troll

    What about people who don't want Internet access? When the government provides something, everyone pays.

  21. Re:A more simple solution... on Botnet Expert Wants 'Special Ops' Security Teams · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, this isn't simple. Are you going to force people into class rooms? Maybe run some PSAs? I doubt people will listen or pay attention, considering that's the problem we're having now.

  22. Re:Next time . . . on Mars Winds Clean Spirit's Solar Panels Again · · Score: 1

    Then... You could put an air cannon on the air cannon to clean the air cannon when it gets clogged with the dust it cleaned off.

  23. What if... on Drug Deletes Fearful Memories · · Score: 1

    I have a phobia of forgetting things? :|

  24. Re:But.. on Microsoft Ramps Up "Fix it" Support Tool · · Score: 1

    I doubt anybody outside England and under 40 years old gets that joke

    I know I don't.

  25. Re:Extinction on Extinct Pyrenean Ibex Cloned · · Score: 2, Funny

    "You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct" * Iam Malcolm (p. 189)