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  1. Re:UltraDefrag (fail) on Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins · · Score: 1

    Depending on the size of your file system blocks.. if you use a server with Shadow Copy enabled, and run a defrag, you will lose all of your "previous versions" as it sees every file touched as an update, and basically overwrites the previous versions buffer. I think (but not sure) you need 16k clusters or bigger to prevent that. I run Defrag manually, only when really needed on my file servers, because otherwise users can't retrieve backups themselves, and I have to get them from tape.. (ie, I do it after a major deadline is done)

  2. Re:Yeah, class warfare. That's right. on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    When your taxing the rich, its "Class Warfare".. When your taxing the middle class and poor, its "Balancing the Budget"

    Keep in mind, Paul Ryan has had his own constituents removed by police for trying to meet with him, and has had NO open public forums this year. Some people did pay $15 to go to a rotary club fundraising luncheon, but when asked hard questions, the police removed them.. (why are they having cops sitting in the room of this private event anyways?)

    Paul Ryan is trying to make a name for himself to run for president someday.. he likes the national attention. He could care less about Janesville, WI.

  3. Re:How is this a radical departure? on Windows Server 8 Is A Radical Departure From Previous Releases · · Score: 1

    Kind of, but if I remember right, Server 2008 core (without the gui) is missing Powershell, which is a massive hinderance to maintaining it..

  4. Re:Do what? on Why We Don't Need Gigabit Networks (Yet) · · Score: 1

    So basically, you just replaced your Cable Company with an online only service, giving you 50 hi def channels for cheap. That is a GOOD thing, since it takes the LOCAL Monopoly out of TV.

    (oh, and how many houses only have 1 computer ?)

  5. Re:Good test. on Researchers' Typosquatting Stole 20 GB of E-Mail · · Score: 1

    At least 1.3GB must have been the pretty little green text (sometimes with a graphic of a tree) to "think of the environment before printing this email...

  6. Re:More importantly... on Google Details and Defends Its Use of Electricity · · Score: 1

    Even crazier than that.. That Aluminium plant was built because of all the spare power from the dams in the area that were built to supply Hanford Nuclear Reservation to make plutonium.

  7. Re:Distracted by semantics on Court Orders Gov't To Disclose GPS Tracking Data · · Score: 1

    GPS itself is most definitely one way.

    Thats just what they want you to think.. Why do you think we insist on TinFoil?

  8. Re:Chain effect on GlobalSign Suspends Issuance of SSL Certificates · · Score: 1

    I can see investigating internally, but if you stop issuing, then it means you either found something really, really bad, or things are such a cluster f--k that you can't tell

  9. Re:Sandy Bridge-E on AMD Starts Shipping First Bulldozer CPU · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that those cheaper AMD motherboards also usually include a decent (not great) video card.. That can run complete circles around any embedded intel card.. (for cheap PC's that you might want to play some games on)

  10. Re:Oh yeah? on Sprint Files Suit Against AT&T T-Mobile Merger · · Score: 1

    Cmon, things will be fine.. its not like the best and brightest at T-Mobile have been leaving in droves while there are still jobs available at their competitors and no mass layoffs.. Because they were personally assured by the CEO that this transition will be wonderful for the customers and company...

  11. Re:Boring on Hackers May Have Nabbed Over 200 SSL Certificates · · Score: 1, Insightful

    add to /etc/hosts
    127.0.0.1 diginotar.nl

  12. Re:This might make me stick with T-Mobile on Justice Dept. Files Antitrust Complaint Against AT&T and T-Mobile Merger · · Score: 1

    When a merger like this happens, there is massive redundancies, and mass layoffs.. (err, sorry, restructuring)... The smart people know whats coming, and know that their chances are better if they look for work right now, and leave quickly, then wait for the merger to happen, and find themselves, and 50 (or many, many more) of their co-workers with similar skills hunting for any remaining jobs with such a large pool to compete with.

    As soon as this merger was announced, many of the best and brightest left. Many of the other good ones are taking long lunches, and "pto days" to interview...

  13. Re:this begs the question on Protecting a Laptop From Sophisticated Attacks · · Score: 1

    He has very important secrets.. Things so important, that he trusts a single USB drive to continue to work so that he can access it (since that is where he stores his FDE key. Oh, and a smartcard for his PGP) So two things to lose (or someone that wants to prevent him from pubiishing or whatever, just has to destroy..

  14. Re:As a Mac user... on VMware vSphere 5 Released · · Score: 1

    With VSphere 4, you have to run the actual VCenter server (the software that actually controls the ESXi machines) on windows too.. which is really annoying..

  15. Re:$100 is an impulse buy, $500 is not on What HP's TouchPad Fire Sale Teaches iPad Rivals · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what they do with video game systems? Sell the unit at either cost, or a loss, and make up for it by a percentage of the games sold.. (or apps bought)

  16. Re:Russian Railroads vs. California on Russia Approves Siberia-Alaska Railway · · Score: 1

    One would imagine that land and rights of way in siberia and alaska would be just a bit cheaper than downtown SF or LA..

  17. Re:So... hosting? on Inside Oregon State University's Open Source Lab · · Score: 2

    Kernel.org and several other sites are hosted here. They do not use the university's bandwith, they have their own connections. Google gave them some funding a few years ago, along with several other companies to help pay for bandwith.

    In fact, you can see their bandwith graphs here: from their provider, nero.net, which conglomerates many state of Oregon groups and buys bandwith (similar to badger.NET in wisconsin)
    http://netfoo.nero.net/netviewer?meta=partner&locale=OSUOSL

    (keep in mind, they have a mirror in the midwest provided by (I think) TDS)

  18. Re:An offer you can't refuse. on Verizon Employees End Strike · · Score: 1

    Have you ever woriked in a call center? People that are 'bright' and smart are punished. In a call center, they want consistency. They want you to follow the script, and they want you to lower your average call times. It is all about the metrics they can show at the end of the month. Actually serving customers is not even important. Its really sad that call centers like netflix and zappos get attention for encouraging their employees to do what EVERY OTHER call center should be doing, but sadly, support is seen as a non-essential function by the MBA that gets stock options, so its all about farming it out for the lowest cost possible..

  19. Re:Some of us work in IT. We aren't students like on Linux Kernel 3.1 RC 2 Released · · Score: 1

    THere was much, much bigger changes between Office 2003, 2007, and 2010 than just a UI bump, that was just the most visible. The Entire plugin structure has radically changed. I worked at a company that used literally hundreds of addins and macros (from tax calculating tools in excel, to enterprise email archiving tools in outlook). The sheer number of tools/scripts/apps that have had to be rewritten is about 10 times the cost of the actual licenses..

  20. Re:Can you hear me now!? on 4G and CDMA Reportedly Hacked At DEFCON · · Score: 1

    Why would that matter, if they can get to the other host that you are communicating with? (ie, your cell phone companies BES server) Kind of like saying SSH is secure, when the bad guy is running as root on the other end :)

  21. Re:Woosh! on External Thunderbolt Graphics Card On Its Way · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking this will be very handy for film crews. there are already external PCI-E video card boxes for film crews to render and compress video on site.. Was reading some blogs from a film crew using the RED camera's, talking about their process..

  22. Re:My lawn mowing is further complicated... on The Mathematics of Lawn Mowing · · Score: 1

    A large battery? or a roomba lawn mower.. (someone makes them, but not sure if its the makers of the roomba)

  23. Re:VirtualBox on After Complaints, VMware Revises VSphere 5 Licensing · · Score: 1

    Right.. Cause Oracle isn't going to try to squeeze juice out of that turnip..

  24. Re:It's only an abuse if you have something to hid on Are 'Real Names' Policies an Abuse of Power? · · Score: 1

    Can you anonymously make a transaction with your bank? (Money is recently viewed as "speech" by the supreme court? I haven't tried walking in with a mask lately..

  25. Re:Easy solution on Are 'Real Names' Policies an Abuse of Power? · · Score: 1

    And at the same time, I notice certain places, where you can anonymously create accounts (like my newspapers online web page) seems to attract a bunch of morons creating multiple accounts to sit and blurt out crap without thinking.. Maybe, just maybe, if their actual name showed up instead of "LovePalin123" they would actually think about what they are posting..