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  1. Re:We need better software, not more programmers on Why Coding Is Not the New Literacy · · Score: 1

    Perhaps we need better programs and better ways of connecting the programs. Think of it like this, we have a house full of appliances (simple programs) and we have a power plant (a more complex program). Now the average user knows to connect the appliance to the power, they simply have to plug it in to an outlet in the wall. We don't expect everyone to know or understand how to wire a house, knowledge of the power grid, or even the different voltage levels and amps. We (the experts) have simplified the process to where 110 and 220 volt outlets are different shapes and cannot fit into one another and even different amp circuits can have different shapes. The user knows that if the plug fits in the wall, then that was the correct outlet to use. If they plug too many appliances in, it will trip the breaker and they know that they have overloaded the circuit. We do need better programs but we need to come up with a standard method of connecting those programs together that is simple and easy to use.

  2. Re:Totally would buy on HP Claims Their Moonshot System is a 'New Style of IT' (Video) · · Score: 1

    The moonshot is targeted for a different workload than general computing. We are currently looking at them for replacing our VDI solution. We have several pieces of software that need a better video card and cpu than what a typical VM could provide. With the moonshot we can simply install our software on the bare metal hardware and skip the visualization layer. The moonshot supports 45 blades and you can get a blade that has 4 servers built in, without a hard drive of course. 45 * 4 = 180 desktops per 4.3U with better performance CPU and video wise. I think the moonshot has it's place in more specialty places but defiantly not general computing. Just an HP customer

  3. Re:Consoles on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 1

    Let me help you even more I still got the original APF TV FUN pong console, still works great. Still feel old??? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

  4. Re:IT the bottleneck? on Software-Defined Data Centers Might Cost Companies More Than They Save · · Score: 1

    Most archival solutions that enable end-users to search the archives are more expensive than just purchasing the disk storage.

  5. Re:Reason 6 works both ways on Why Your Sysadmin Hates You · · Score: 1

    drop table assets semicolon return

    Incorrect syntax near 'semicolon'

  6. Re:Oh noes! on Earth's Core Far Hotter Than Thought · · Score: 1

    Then how come the funniest racist jokes I have heard was told by the person the joke was about? I have heard some really funny black jokes from a couple different black friends.

  7. Re:Good Riddens on PayPal To Replace VMware With OpenStack · · Score: 1

    Take a look at cluster shared volumes, Hyper-V has supported shared storage since 2008 R2.

  8. Re:I think you said it on Ask Slashdot: On the Job Certification Training? · · Score: 2

    Where I work, All certification is paid for by the company and we get to do it on company time. There is actually a budget set aside for training and everyone can take as many classes and certifications as they want )as long as it's relevant to their job) until that budget is gone.

  9. Re:Let me guess...further deprecation of desktop a on Report: Windows Blue Reaches Its First Milestone Build · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have met a few people excited about the Metro screen. But these people barely know how to use a computer and to them, Metro is a lot easier to find what programs they want to run. I personally don't mind Windows 8 and Metro although the first thing I did was set the default for all Metro apps to the full version and pin my most used programs to the taskbar. Any time that I need another program, I simply hit the windows key, type in the first few characters of what I want and hit enter. Metro pops up and goes away quickly.

  10. Re:Couldn't we just charge them tuition? on Does US Owe the World an Education At Its Expense? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why would I want to require a college degree to flip burgers?

  11. Re:How did this happen? on Thousands of Publicly Accessible Printers Searchable On Google · · Score: 1

    I can't remember the name of it but there is some big library software that requires printers with public IP addresses. The printers sit at the clients site but are configured on the companies servers directly. They recommend that no firewall is configured because it might interfere with the print jobs. I only found out because I had to replace a Jet-direct card that was hosed. They finally started allowing printing to locally attached printers last year but most setups are still the old way.

  12. Electrical Fingerprint on Engineers Use Electrical Hum To Fight Crime · · Score: 1

    Form what it looks like to me, they are using the random increases and decreases to create a sort of "fingerprint" of the recording. This fingerprint could then be used to verify that the recording is genuine at any other time. It would be very hard to duplicate the random noise in a recording exactly if you tried to tamer with the recording.

  13. Re:Fundamental lack of intelligence on Iran Suspends Programmer's Death Sentence · · Score: 1

    Not everyone likes big boobs and six pack abs

    That's why I offer all the girls a keg instead

  14. Re:Oh I so want that! on Inside an Amazon Warehouse · · Score: 1

    Just imagine, a girl with all the bits labeled with barcodes so you can scan them and google the manual for it! And easily order replacement parts.

    And think of the upgrades you would be able to do :)

  15. Re:Who doesn't want Pizza? on Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts · · Score: 1

    Depends on the area. Papa Johns in Memphis tastes great. The ones in southern Mo tastes like a horrible cheap pizza. The rest tastes much better around here.

  16. 2008 Enterprise and Datacenter on Ask Slashdot: Best 32-Bit Windows System In 2012? · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Very true, for many reasons. on System Admins Should Know How To Code · · Score: 1

    Programmers code programs Administrators code scripts The difference is that programs are used but lots of people and generally have nice GUI interfaces. Scripts are used by 1 or 2 people (sometimes more) and are used to make your life easier.

  18. Re:Win+X on Even Windows 8 Users Prefer Windows 7 · · Score: 2

    I also run Win8 at home. Just like I used the quick launch in XP and pinned all my apps to the taskbar in Win7, I have pinned all my apps in Win8 to the tasbar and stay in desktop view. I don't care for the simpler color scheme. It looks like windows is taking a step back to Win 3.1. Overall Win8 is not bad. I agree that it is buggy but I blame most of that on NVidia. Tried their new Win8 drivers for my video card and they would crash all the time. Reverted back to the Win7 drivers and the crashing has stopped.

  19. My Distro's on Ask Slashdot: What Distros Have You Used, In What Order? · · Score: 1

    FreeBSD -> Redhat -> Gentoo -> Ubuntu -> Solaris -> FreeBSD with a few others mixed in

  20. Re:Not the real prob on Microsoft Wants To Nix Data Center Backup Generators · · Score: 1

    Our datacenter has the lines on poles since we pretty much live on a rock shelf. Most digging requires a blasting crew to make a trench.

  21. Re:Does Windows 8 have an opt-out feature? on Windows 8 Tells Microsoft About Everything You Install · · Score: 1

    To be honest, Windows 8 does ask if you want SmartScreen enabled on install.

  22. Re:Wedge (Puck) Mouse on Microsoft Releases Batch of Windows 8 Input Devices · · Score: 1

    The GUI which Apple knicked from the Xerox PARC lab.

    Jesus, do we really have to rehash this yet again?

    Apple paid Xerox for access to PARC. I guess we really do have to re-hash this every time.

    And Microsoft licensed parts of the GUI from Apple

  23. Re:How the money could better have been spent on West Virginia Buys $22K Routers With Stimulus, Puts Them In Small Schools · · Score: 5, Informative

    FYI, you can use repeaters to overcome this. Centurylink has used a few repeaters to get DSL out in my area for only $50 a month. Grated the speed is only 1.5mb but I will take that over satellite any day. I live 12 miles from town or around 9 miles from the closest DSLAM.

  24. Re:Good luck with that. on Hulu To Require Viewers To Have Cable Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    Cartoon Network already requires you to have a cable subscription to watch anything on their website. My nephews are the only reason I still have the basic satellite service at my house.

  25. Re:Maybe on LED's Efficiency Exceeds 100% · · Score: 1

    I think that sounds like a really cool server room. Everyone always liked the blinking lights in the server room, now just image blue light glowing between the slots in the servers.