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  1. Google Search Appliance on How To Manage Hundreds of Thousands of Documents? · · Score: 1

    Google Search Appliance

  2. Re:Of course, the next Google killer-app... on Time For Voice-Mail To Throw In the Towel · · Score: 1

    ... will be a text-to-voice service that will read your Google Voice mail to you...

    It's already here:
    http://www.dial2do.com/
    Get your voicemail as email and dial2do will read it to you.

  3. Windows 7 vs. XP on Windows 7 "Not Much Faster" Than Vista · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When I run Windows 7 vs. Windows XP Pro in Microsoft Virtual PC, the performance in many areas is the same and also notably faster that Vista. Tests in a lab environment frequently do not represent real world result.

  4. Re:Right on Sun Announces New MySQL, Michael Widenius Forks · · Score: 4, Informative

    Did anyone else notice that his little toy database is practically useless without InnoDB, which was written by a third party and is owned by Oracle?

    If you mean for transactions.
    If you want a really fast free database that supports fulltext indexing, and you don't need transactions, MyISAM in the engine to use.

  5. Short Answer: Windows Server on How Do I Provide a Workstation To Last 15 Years? · · Score: 1

    In one of my offices (programming POS and web applications for a retail store), we have been running happily on two Windows 2000 Servers (one is SBS) for over 8 years.

    Long answer: some of our network closet is held together with duck-tape.

  6. And I thought bats were a problem, on Yeast-Powered Fuel Cell Feeds On Human Blood · · Score: 3, Funny

    now we may have to worry about vampire cars and vampire houses too?

    If people can use this descovery to power other things, you might need to walk around in a full suit of armor to keep your blood to your self.

  7. Re:Used car salesmen use the same thing on Cellular Repo Man · · Score: 1

    Singularly or collectively? (i.e. can either of you put the car up for sale on their own authority, or do you both have to do it together?)

    I think the Title specifically says that "This vehicle can not be sold" with out notarized bank approval.

  8. Real or Fake? You decide... on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 1

    The timing of this is perfect, it will be hard to tell real stories from April Fools stories even if the stories claim to be 100% real! Other than that, this is the perfect excuse for anything to stop working today, just blame it on the worm.

  9. Re:Premade on Mac Tax, Dell Tax, HP Tax · · Score: 1, Informative

    It is technically possible, and doesn't even look to hard, although I have not done it, to install Mac OS on your own hardware. http://lifehacker.com/software/hack-attack/build-a-hackintosh-mac-for-under-800-321913.php or newer http://lifehacker.com/348653/install-os-x-on-your-hackintosh-pc-no-hacking-required/

  10. Re:Not us. on Should Google Be Forced To Pay For News? · · Score: 0

    Regretfully, some people (not you) just don't know how to embrace the future.

  11. Re:Torrent on American Airlines To Offer Wi-Fi In Planes · · Score: 0

    Ooh does this mean i can torrent films whilst on the plane rather than needing to plan my entertainment beforehand

    probably not. many public wifi services (like on buses) block all ports but 80 and 443, so you can even use pop/imap/smtp or ftp on them. unless you get your torrent over 80, probably not.

  12. Re:Aggressive Social Sites on Social Search Reveals 700 Comcast Customer Logins · · Score: 1

    I dont know which site you are talking about, but spokeo tells you outright that they will use it to log in to your email.

  13. Re:Aggressive Social Sites on Social Search Reveals 700 Comcast Customer Logins · · Score: 1

    They can do almost anything as long as it is there in writing. The reason they ask for your password is to get your contact list. That makes sense considering that the point of the site is to find out what your contacts are doing.

  14. Re:Aggressive Social Sites on Social Search Reveals 700 Comcast Customer Logins · · Score: 0, Troll

    buried in the 58 page EULA, there was text about authorizing the site in question to logon to her supplied email account (e.g. - gmail.com) using the same supplied password.

    In other words, the people who use the same password for everything would simply check the "I AGREE" box, which would authorize the new site to harvest their email contacts for the sake of spamming them. Since the generated emails would be coming from a known contact, it would become a plausible suggestion for each recipient (i.e. - better than unsolicited spam).

    I can imagine that sites like this would have no problem selling and/or posting this information publicly.

    If you actually read the terms of spokeo.com, they will only use your email password ONCE for the purpose of getting your contact list, as that is the whoole point of the website. There is nothing at all that would imply sending spam.

  15. Re:money is not the way on How Do I Start a University Transition To Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Why run your own mail server, when you can do google apps - I think it's free for non-profits and .edus. Gmail, and instantly, you just saved a bunch of money, and a bunch of work. Now those people can be put to working on other higher priority stuff.

    One of the great things about Exchange over many other solutions including gmail is the SSO capability. While gmail does provide an API for SSO, that is for other applications, not windows logons.