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  1. To be fair, if you've been to a wedding with a BrideZilla, there may not be much difference between the two.

  2. Re:Expecting honesty from politicians?!???!?!! on Democratic Super PAC Buys Newtgingrich.com · · Score: 1

    The main difference here is military spending. Military spending during WWII was around 42% of GDP.. Recent military spending has risen from 3.6% in 1999 to 6% in 2010 (% of GDP). Spending has gotten out of control, and only part of it can be blamed on military spending.

  3. Re:VMWare needs no luck on VMware, a Falling Giant? · · Score: 1

    I agree with you on VMWare, but don't knock NFS, especially on NetApp.. Our VMs running on NetApp NFS regularly outperform VMs on our monster Fiber-based arrays. My group manages over 200 ESX/ESXi servers and over 2500 VMs. Welcome to 2011 where fiber is on the decline in favor of enterprise ethernet-based solutions.

  4. Re:Sounds sort of like a militia on Real Life Super Hero Arrested · · Score: 1

    Are guardian angles acute or obtuse?

  5. Re:rank speculation on Creating a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Bootable Flash Drive · · Score: 1

    Those of us in the Apple Dev program have already burnt a copy of the Lion GM. It comes as a DMG file. If you want to put it on a USB key or DVD (dual layer), it is up to you.

  6. What's the problem here? on Is Google Playing Fair With Groupon, et al? · · Score: 1

    Cross selling or bundling is only an issue if there is a monopoly. Gmail is hardly a monopoly. Gmail is 3rd behind Microsoft and Yahoo for webmail market share.

  7. If someone gets your hashed password, you're done on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is well known that if someone gets your hashed password, it is as good as cracked. 17 minutes vs 4 minutes is irrelevant.

    On a live system, it is quite another story. You can't just remotely try 3.3 Billion passwords per second.. You'll be locked out after 10 attempts or so.

  8. Re:Don't do it... on Ask Slashdot: Moving From *nix To Windows Automation? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm a *nix guy, and I do have to say Powershell is pretty sweet.

    Here's an example of something extending Powershell. VMWare released a module for PowerShell that allows for control of VMWare env using Powershell.

    #Load VMWare snap-in for powershell
    LoadSnapin -PSSnapinName "VMware.VimAutomation.Core"

    #Create VM from template and then start it
    $myNewVMName = "NewVM_01"
    $myTemplate = Get-Template "TemplateName"
    $strDestinationHost = "ESX01"
    $myNewVM = New-VM -Name $myNewVMName -Template $myTemplate -VMHost (Get-VMHost $strDestinationHost)
    Start-VM $myNewVM


    VMWare created a really awesome extension to Powershell, that allows for all sorts of inheritance and piping. Microsoft created a rather poorly implemented Active Directory extension for Powershell (can't pipe or inherit on things I would expect to be able to)... MS could have used the VMWare example to make a better AD extension.

  9. Excellent news on Oracle, Google Move To Streamline Java Suit · · Score: 1

    Oracle and Google put aside their differences and collaborate to streamline the java suite... oh... suit.

  10. Just songwriters? on Canadian Songwriters Propose $10/mo Internet Fee · · Score: 1

    Obviously we need to add $10/mo to satisfy the songwriters...

    We'll also need:
    $10/mo for the music artists
    $10/mo for the record label
    $10/mo for movie script writers
    $10/mo for actors
    $10/mo for movie publishers
    $10/mo for software developers
    $10/mo for software companies

    Did I miss anything?

  11. Re:Today's word..."Cloud" on Want an IT Job? Add 'Cloud' To Your Buzzword List · · Score: 3, Informative

    Everyone is confused about the "cloud" because everyone over-uses the term.

    Essentially, the "Cloud" has three main points:
    It is a set of infrastructure resources.
    It is dynamically provisioned.
    It is self-service.

    Note that it has nothing to do with whether the resources are internal or external. I run an "internal" cloud at my company.

  12. Chip allows blind people to see on Chip Allows Blind People To See · · Score: 2, Funny

    Way to go, Chip! I always liked that guy...

  13. Re:It's tougher than you think... on Convincing Your Employer To Go With FOSS? · · Score: 3, Informative

    To be fair, Excel did not support more than 65k rows until Excel 2010.

  14. Re:Decent competitor? on GM Criticized Over Chevy Volt's Hybrid Similarities · · Score: 1

    The United States Treasury currently owns 61% of GM. "Government Motors" is a reference to the government takeover of GM in 2009 when Obama fired then current CEO Frederick Hendersen. http://www.worldcarfans.com/110092228542/gm-may-pay-back-taxpayers-after-ipo

  15. 3PAR wasn't the only option out there on Where Does Dell Go After Losing 3Par? · · Score: 1

    Dell could go after Compellent... very similar to 3PAR. CML stock has almost doubled since the start of the 3PAR acquisition. Compellent has a very similar feature-set to 3PAR arrays and Dell could pick them up for about 750M.

  16. Comparison to laptops instead of Kindle on iPad Is a "Huge Step Backward" · · Score: 1

    You can choose to look at this compared to a laptop, which would make it "defective" or you could look at this compared to a Kindle, which makes it far superior. I don't want it for

  17. Re:"Obviously lifted" not so obvious on Did Microsoft Borrow GPL Code For a Windows 7 Utility? · · Score: 1

    No... the ReadBytes function was just one of the examples... The author has since replaced the ReadBytes example with another called "ReadLogicalDescriptors"

    http://www.withinwindows.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/example1.png

  18. I missed it! on Intergalactic Race Shows That Einstein Still Rules · · Score: 1

    Man oh man.. I stepped out to use the bathroom and I missed it... I had been waiting 7.3 billion years for this.

  19. Re:Oh no... on Microsoft Opening Outlook's PST Format · · Score: 4, Informative

    >I am not sure that your analysis of the binary RPC version of MAPI being replaced is actually accurate.

    Grandpa AC is correct.. Microsoft is phasing out MAPI entirely and has already replaced it with an open implementation. ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb204042(EXCHG.140).aspx )

    With the advent of Web Services in Exchange 2007 ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb408417.aspx ), clients including Outlook are moving to use standard protocols to access Exchange. Outlook 2007 made a huge step towards using HTTP, XML to access Exchange 2007.

    Apple's Mail App requires Exchange 2007 because the Mail.app client is using Web Services to access. ( http://images.apple.com/macosx/exchange/docs/MacOSXSL_Exchange.pdf )

  20. Sexism in FOSS met with ire and denial? on FOSS Sexism Claims Met With Ire and Denial · · Score: 1

    First of all... Shut up! You are a bozo!
    Second of all... There's no sexism in FOSS...


    Did I cover everything?

  21. Patent violations on Sahimo Hydrogen Vehicle Gets Over 1,300 mpg · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many of Toyota's patents they have violated?

  22. Re:Can we get rid of the term Wi-Fi, please? on A Real-World Test of the Verizon MiFi · · Score: 1

    No.. sorry. Too late. Learn to live with it.

  23. Re:The Best Thing To Do on Triangular Buttons Make On-Screen Keyboards More Usable · · Score: 1

    BUT HOW DO YOU TYPE IN ALL CAPS? using the shift key seems like a pain...

  24. Re:So...? on Palm Pre To Sync Seamlessly With iTunes · · Score: 1

    iTunes update including iPod firmware update should do the trick.

  25. Re:Sue Those Monopolistic Apple Bastards! on Palm Pre To Sync Seamlessly With iTunes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That was the first real battle that Apple lost against the RIAA. Apple threatened to stop selling if the pricing went over 99 cents, but that bluff was called.