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  1. Re:No more licensing fees :) on Samba 4.0 Released: the First Free Software Active Directory Compatible Server · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is why I don't work for a PHB. In fact, he's balding a bit. I have the best boss ever. He just gave me the green light to be early adopters and run this in production (once it passes a few sanity checks). We've been running the alphas and betas with much success. Samba team ftw!! Thanks guys! I've been waiting for this for so long.

  2. Yep on John McAfee Accused of Murder, Wanted By Belize Police · · Score: 1

    I've always thought McAfee felt a bit over-engineered. This explains a lot.

  3. Re:Document Management System on Book Review: Drupal Intranets With Open Atrium · · Score: 1

    I was planning on setting up an Open Atrium instance with Alfresco via the CMIS connector for this.

  4. Re:Cost? on CSIRO Develops 10 Gbps Microwave Backhaul · · Score: 1

    Oh, nice. Initially the order page said $3k per radio. $3k for two is sick.

  5. Re:Cost? on CSIRO Develops 10 Gbps Microwave Backhaul · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Thought it was interesting nonetheless. Don't even know how this new system's spectral characteristics would play out in the U.S., as I have absolutely no idea how similar/dissimilar the band licensing is to AU.

    Looks like the Ubiquitis could be installed by a highly trained monkey with the software they've included.

  6. Cost? on CSIRO Develops 10 Gbps Microwave Backhaul · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ubiquiti just announced their AirFiber product (http://www.ubnt.com/airfiber) which can get 1.4 Gbps symmetric at 13km. It'll be interesting to see the price point of this 10 Gbps system, as Ubiquiti's runs only $3k per endpoint. I was considering getting a pair of the Ubiquitis to connect a branch office to HQ.

    10 Gbps would be nice, but I'm guessing the cost of this system would be at least a magnitude greater than the AirFibers.

  7. Sad :( on Programming Prodigy Arfa Karim Passes Away At 16 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's sad that she passed so early. She appeared truly gifted and it's a shame that she died too soon to learn how awful Microsoft products are. She could have become quite the *nix wiz.

  8. Re:Waste MORE time!? on Obama Makes a Push To Add Time To the School Year · · Score: 1

    I'm just giddy that a post which declares "Fuck him and fuck that." in reference to President Obama got a 5, Insightful. Maybe the world isn't coming to an end, after all.

  9. DeLand, FL on Unreleased OQO 2+ OLED Version Sells For $6,500 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just think it's hilarious that this unarguably beautiful and extremely high-tech product is originating from good ol' DeLand, FL. I used to live there during high school, and let me tell you, that place is as redneck as it gets. I guess there really are some high-tech rednecks...

  10. Re:SAIC Secretive? on Inside the Rise of the Domain Name System · · Score: 1

    Indeed. That's why I was saying that we get bottom-barrel pricing. I'm sure we cut some kind of deal with NS when they departed.

  11. Re:SAIC Secretive? on Inside the Rise of the Domain Name System · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I'm a Sysadmin of the "secretive" SAIC. It's funny to hear us described like that.

    I do especially like the "dirtbags" tag for NS, though. I can't stand them, even though we do get bottom-barrel pricing through them here at SAIC (via secretive back-room dealings).

    I use Gandi.net for my personal domains. They seem to be the antithesis of poor registrars such as GoDaddy and NS.

  12. Re:shit, I already broke the EULA..... on CNN Uses P2P Video & Adds Terrible EULA · · Score: 3, Funny

    Christ, how could you have possibly moved the 'p' over that far? It's "captcha." Also, if you didn't always post AC, you'd know that there's no captcha for regular users.

  13. Re:Apps! on How Microsoft Beats GNU/Linux In Schools · · Score: 1

    Is there a "+0, I teared" mod?

  14. Re:Yes, there is a pro-sumer router on Why Do We Have To Restart Routers? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I second this. I have a D-Link Gamer Lounge (DGL-4300). This is the most stable router I've ever owned. Thumbs up on the QoS, stability and speed (GbE). If I were able to run 'uptime' on it, I believe it would say close to two years (I live in Florida, but it's on a UPS). Oh, wait:

    Connection Up Time : 617 day(s), 12:04:53
    Sick.

    My last router was a WRT54GL that decided to brick itself after about three months of DD-WRT. I think I should agree with some of the above posts that offloading network services can help these routers, but I'm not sure. I run my own DNS and DHCP, so this router has never had to bear that load.

  15. Re:More money to be made elsewhere? on Why Are the Best and Brightest Not Flooding DARPA? · · Score: 1

    I second this. As a Systems/Network Administrator for the Deep Green DARPA project (contractor side), I believe that I can safely say that the contractors get to have all the fun.

  16. Re:Fastest /. effect ever ! on Data Recovered From Space Shuttle Columbia HDD · · Score: 1

    That looks like a 3.5" PATA drive to me. 3.5" drives didn't reach 400MB until about 1990. Since the Challenger disaster was in 1986, the possibility that this drive was from Challenger is extremely low. Typo at best.

  17. Re:Apple Upgrade Tax on Psystar Open Computer Notes, Benchmarks and Video · · Score: 1

    5) Pain in the ass to install free *nix software Have you ever tried MacPorts? It is far from a pain in the ass.
    http://www.macports.org/

    Their computers are over priced, but are perfect for casual, non-technical yuppy types, or people who have to use Final Cut / Logic Pro. What operating system do you use? From my experience, Mac OS is generally the system that is used by non-yuppy technical types who have reached enlightenment. ;)
  18. Re:Would you care to explain, OT, of course... on Western Digital's "Green" Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    1. You said "Don't your friend know." It should be "Doesn't your friend know?" 2. Okay 3. The power saving on the GP drives operates independently of APM and ACPI.

  19. Re:Don't your friend know... on Western Digital's "Green" Hard Drives · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, my friend certainly knows a couple of things:
    1. How to use better grammar than you.
    2. Not to assume the operating systems that others are using.
    3. That again, the spin down time for the GP drives can not be controlled by the user (short of writing a script that pings your hard drive every 30 seconds).

    Feel free to mod me down -1, Insolent

  20. Re:performance? on Western Digital's "Green" Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, you can not control when the GP drives spin down with hdparm in Linux or the power settings in Windows.

  21. Re:performance? on Western Digital's "Green" Hard Drives · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have a friend with a 500GB WD GP drive. He uses the rig mostly for gaming, and is now sorry that he bought the WD drive. When he's playing FPSs, the drive spins down until it needs to access a certain texture or sound file. When the time comes to access that file from the drive, the game freezes for 1-3 seconds while the drive spins back up for access. It's painful. I don't play games on my computer, so having a GP drive wouldn't bother me.

  22. Re:Right... on Debian Cluster Replaces Supercomputer For Weather Forecasting · · Score: 2, Informative

    All I can say is that I enjoy running Debian servers and RHEL clients at my work... and you're a douche...

  23. Re:News Flash: bitter ex communist hates communism on Tetris Creator Claims FOSS Destroys the Market · · Score: 1

    Hey, don't call Linux a PoS! It's okay Tux, the mean man didn't mean it..

  24. Re:Bah humbug on There's No Such Thing as 'Wireless HDMI' · · Score: 1

    I bet it was monoprice! I got two 25' HDMI cables for $60.

  25. Re:Slow News Day on Google's Shadow Over Firefox · · Score: 1

    My firewall is bricked. About 100 users are going to be very angry at me tomorrow. This is Google's Fault.