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  1. Re:Uneblievable on Time-Warner Planning AOL Split · · Score: 1

    They did, technically. But the company now operates as Time Warner, Inc. with AOL being one of the subsidiaries. Their wiki page is pretty thorough. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner

  2. Re:Uneblievable on Time-Warner Planning AOL Split · · Score: 1

    Not really. AOL is an asset owned by Time Warner Inc. (http://www.timewarner.com/corp/businesses/index.html). This is taking that subsidiary asset and splitting it into two separate assets. At least, that's what I make of this.

  3. Re:Screen Flicker on Windows Vista Annoyances · · Score: 1

    I can't recall having that problem in XP... I remember having to manually enable/disable my extended desktop in XP, but not having flicker problems like I have in Vista.

  4. Screen Flicker on Windows Vista Annoyances · · Score: 2, Informative

    My biggest annoyance is the screen flickering when unlocking a laptop that has an external monitor plugged in. I found a way to get it to stop, but that disables the auto-detection of external monitors (http://comments.deviantart.com/18/976237/576101509).

    If you do disable TMM, you will need to remember to disable the 2nd monitor before suspending your laptop to go somewhere. If you don't, you'll go to unlock your machine and be staring at a black screen. You'll then need to hit CTL-ALT-DEL, and select "Switch User", and re-login in order to use your machine again. Pretty freakin' annoying.

  5. Re:VTL on Unencrypted Lost Tape Affects 230 Retailers · · Score: 1

    Are your tapes encrypted? Neoscale appliance or something similar?

  6. Re:VTL on Unencrypted Lost Tape Affects 230 Retailers · · Score: 1

    Instead of backing up to tape and having the tapes sent off-site, we're replicating the data over an IPSec tunnel to another facility of ours.

  7. VTL on Unencrypted Lost Tape Affects 230 Retailers · · Score: 1

    This is one of the many reasons we're moving to a VTL. I might just use this incident as a little nudge to speed up the implementation.

  8. Enema Within on 2007 Darwin Award Winners · · Score: 5, Funny

    The machine shop owner couldn't imbibe alcohol by mouth due to a painful throat ailment, so he elected to receive his favourite beverage via enema. And tonight, Michael was in for one hell of a party. Two 1.5 litre bottles of sherry, more than 100 fluid ounces, right up the old address! Takes "shitfaced" to a whole new level.
  9. Re:external usb drive enclosures on How to Say Goodbye to Old Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't really affect me as I don't directly edit any files on the WHS storage solution (I copy them somewhere else first). Nor do I use any of the applications mentioned in the MS KB article. Thanks though.

  10. Re:external usb drive enclosures on How to Say Goodbye to Old Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    And then you can take those drives and plug them into a machine running Windows Home Server and have yourself a nice, redundant storage solution. I currently have 5 external drives plugged into mine.

  11. Re:Minority Report spin on the eye-tracker on Long Range Eye Tracking for Advertisers · · Score: 1

    What's stopping someone from marrying this type of technology with a retinal scanner or image capturing device? Nothing.

  12. GTA IV is a potential dealbreaker on PS3 Price Cut To Follow End of Blu-ray Laser Shortage? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd hope Sony is well aware of the disdain towards PS3 pricing and will cut prices sooner than later. A price cut before the release of GTA IV could help a lot, especially since the 360 will have a lot of momentum heading into the Halo 3 release.

  13. Re:Companies? Listening? on Are End Users to Blame for OS Flaws? · · Score: 1

    I think companies are listening. Mine makes software, and we listen quite a bit. I think it depends on the size of the company and the generation gap between the executives and the workers/customers.